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Chapter Nine
The Facility
Wonder Girl was brought out of her daydream by the sound of a radio crackling and she put her hands into her ear.
"Wonder Girl here," she said, "What's the situation down here?"
"We found a passageway underneath the Mansion," Nightwing's voice said from her comm., "It seems that it was being used to transport Cadmus equipments, the same that were used in creating Linda."
Kid Flash who was also listening on his own comm. frowned a little.
"So what are we going to do?"
"Well, the passage underground lead south," Nightwing said, "We are going to follow it and maybe get to the Facility…"
"What Facility?" Wonder Girl questioned.
"The two guys we took out were talking about it," Nightwing told her, "And it does seem that Luthor is the one in charge of it too. So, Wonder Girl, is there anything in the far South of Smallville?"
Wonder Girl frowned to herself searching her memories. Even thought Smallville had a lot of open space, everyone knew where everything was…
"Well, there is a lot of open space and a forest," she said, "And also the Dam is located there."
"A Dam?" Kid Flash said.
"Yep," Wonder Girl told her, "Other than that…nothing else."
"Well, Batgirl, Linda and I are going to follow that tunnel to where it leads," Nightwing said, "You two, can go by above ground. Considering the size of the tunnel, I am pretty sure it leads somewhere big."
Wonder Girl frowned to herself. The only place large enough to draw attention there would have been the Dam itself. Could Luthor had build a secret Facility inside the Dam?
"Alright," she said, "We'll follow from above…and you guys be careful down here."
"Will do," Nightwing told her before signing out.
Wonder Girl gave Kid Flash a glance and said, "Let's go then."
The speedster put his googles on and gave her a thumb up and she started to fly aiming straight South and the boy following her from bellow. They reached the forest soon enough which wad dark and silent but the duo managed to weave through it until they reached a small running lake.
"We're already in front of the lake," Wonder Girl said landing on the ground.
Kid Flash glanced toward her left and said, "And I am pretty sure that must be the Dam then."
Wonder Girl followed his gaze.
Standing across them in the darkness with some lights flickering in the shadows was the Smallville Dam. Wonder Girl had never been here before, thought she never had a reason to come here in the past. It looked impressive and forbidden in the night.
"Let's get a closer look," Kid Flash said, tapping her shoulder.
She nodded and the two approached forward, sticking to the side of the flowing waters that came from the Dam. As they got closer Wonder Girl suddenly stopped walking glancing around herself.
"What?" Kid Flash asked.
"I can hear a car," she said.
Soon enough, the sound of a car motor filled the forest around them and the duo quickly followed the sound finding a van going through the dirt road in the forest.
"Odd," Wonder Girl said, "I thought that the Dam didn't have any personnel at night?"
"Let's follow it," Kid Flash told her.
They did so and the van was driving toward the Dam but came to a stop in front of a KEEP OUT gate. Then the gate opened letting the van in before closing behind it. The two young vigilantes approached the KEEP OUT gate and Wonder Girl floated above, so that she could peek over it.
Her eyes widened slightly.
The van was already unloading and she can see that they were moving heavy machinery, some she can bet her life on that wasn't part of the Dam. Then Kid Flash appeared beside her, observing the area.
"That's some pretty heavy gears," he whispered, "What do you think they are being used for?"
"Probably not upgrading the Dam that's for sure," Wonder Girl said, narrowing her blue eyes at the door they were taking the equipments in, "We need to get in there…see if you can spot any cameras with your night lenses."
Kid Flash clicked a button upon his goggles as he scanned the area.
"No camera as far as I can see," he told her, "Probably weren't expecting anyone to find this place."
"Work for us," Wonder Girl told him as she took hold of his arm and flew both of them above the gate and into the empty courtyard.
"Warm me before you do that," Kid Flash told her before working his way into a window.
Wonder Girl followed him and the duo stepped inside the catwalk they were on, noticing the red glow that the entire area had.
"This is not what I expected when we stepped inside," Wonder Girl said softly.
"You'll adapt," Kid Flash told her.
Then they noticed some people underneath them, as a woman stepped forward.
"Alright," the woman said, "Those will go to the Storage."
She was dressed sharply with business attire upon her. She had a cold look upon her face as her hair was falling down her back as she hold a clipboard and a pen.
"Yes ma'am," one of the worker said before the machine started to carry the equipments into an elevator.
The woman checked her list before she put a hand on her hears.
"Mr. Luthor," she said, "The last shipment has arrived. The Project will be up to schedule despite the misfortune of last week."
She stayed quiet listening.
"I will have them up and running in no time sir," she said, "When the latest equipment have been installed, Phase Two should be up and running in the next three days."
The woman then started to walk, and as quietly as they could Wonder Girl and Kid Flash followed after her, wanting to hear the rest of the conversation.
"I will see to it sir," the woman said pressing a button on the wall, which opened in front of her, "You can count on me."
She stepped inside and the wall closed behind her.
"Sound like Luthor isn't here himself," Kid Flash murmured.
"I wonder what kind of Project they are working on." Wonder Girl said, "Thought it seems our answers lie in Sublevel 5."
Kid Flash gave her a nod.
With Nightwing and the rest…
The Tunnel had being stretching forward for at least a good ten minutes now as the trio walked in the darkness. Nightwing was still working on those files he downloaded from the computer in the room as Batgirl and Linda walked in front of him.
"Hey, you're okay?" Batgirl asked.
Linda glanced toward her, blinking a little before nodding. The girl in the cowl glanced forward again before speaking again.
"So what are you thinking about?"
Linda sighed.
"I just wish…I could meet her,"
Batgirl gave her a sideway glance.
"Meet who?"
"Supergirl," Linda told her, "At least…the real one. The one I was cloned from."
Batgirl glanced down.
"I'm sure she would have wanted the same thing," she said.
Linda gave her a glance.
"How would you know that?"
Batgirl let out a sigh.
"I…I met her a few times," she said.
"I must remind you of her eh," Linda said.
"You may have the same face," Batgirl said, "But…you are not like her Linda, just remember that."
"Yes, I cracked it," Nightwing said drawing the two girl's attention.
A hologram had appeared floating above his wrist as he typed away showing some graph.
"So what is it?" Batgirl asked him, "What have you found?"
"I know what Project Kr is," Nightwing told them, "And I know what they are planning now."
"Well, don't leave us in the dark,"
Nightwing gave her a glance.
"Project Kr, is the cloning of Supergirl," he said, "Big K little r, which stand for Krypton, the Planet where Supergirl came from, and I am pretty sure that's Linda over here and she was only Phase One of their plan."
Linda frowned a little.
"Phase One?" she repeated.
Batgirl narrowed her eyes.
"What is Phase Two?"
"I don't know since the files are not clear about it," Nightwing said, glancing at the floating screen in front of him, "But I do know that they intended her to be a Weapon to strike at the League. Whatever Phase Two is, I don't think it will be good."
In front of them they noticed that light was appearing and the three approached toward the mouth of the tunnel finding themselves looking at a very large hangar filled with many boxes and they can hear the tractors moving around placing the boxes on top of another.
"I guess we just found the Facility," Nightwing said.
Kid Flash and Wonder Girl reached Sublevel 5 and the double door opened in front of them. The duo walked forward glancing up and down the empty hallway that stretched on both of their sides.
"So where do we go?" the boy asked her.
Before Wonder Girl could answer, they heard voices talking down one of the corridor they were facing.
"The other way," she said.
They ran down the opposite way until they reached an open doorway and they stepped inside and the door closed engulfing the duo in darkness.
"Great, now what?" Kid Flash said.
Then light were flicked on and the young man glanced around himself. Then his eyes widened in shock as he noticed a baby in a tank in front of him as he suddenly jumped backward from it.
"What the hell…?" he said.
Wonder Girl was staring at the many tubes in front of her. One of them had a small child, a girl by the look of it looking no older than ten years old. The next one had a full grown woman, who had long black hair falling down toward her lower back. The thing that horrified her was that all of those girls had the same shockingly familiar face…
"Supergirl?" she whispered.
It was like the entire room was filled with tubes with floating girls in them.
"More like Supergirls," Kid Flash told her, "Is Luthor breeding them?"
Wonder Girl stared at the tube in front of her. It was a girl about her age with both of her eyes closed but she can see the eyes moving underneath the eyelids. She was alive…each of them inside those tubes was alive…
"I knew the man was bad but…this make me sick," she said.
The door behind them suddenly opened causing both heroes to turn back at the person who had entered. It was the woman from before and her face stayed blank as she watched them, unmoving from where she stood.
"You shouldn't be here," she said simply.
A mysterious secret...what do they want with all those Supergirls?
Next time: Phase Two
Jacques0 out.
R&R.
