She didn't know how much time had passed laying there when she feels her eyes begin to flutter open. They ache as much as the rest of her body. Kara tries to lift herself up - not float like she usually would - simply rise up on her elbows, but even that is too much for the blonde hero. She opens her eyes and stares up into the blinding white light above her. Licking her dry lips she finds no relief, her mouth a barren wasteland like the open road they drove on last night.
Finding some strength she reaches her hand up to rest on her chest in a tangle of wires. She wraps her finger around them pulling with all her might. The leads tug at her skin, as if they are ripping her flesh from body. Her eyes go wide as she feels the torment. Looking around she sees she's alone, she tries to listen for anyone or anything, but her super hearing is on the fritz too she thinks. Rolling slowly onto her side Kara spots Guy's chain of rings on the console across the room. Her eyes growing wild as she thinks about what they did with him.
Swinging her legs around to hang off the table, she finds she can't stop the momentum and slips off the metal surface to the floor. Falling in a heap she cries out in agony. It's hard for her to breathe and she gasps as she struggles to get to her feet - finally giving up and dragging her body across the cold linoleum floor to the console. She reaches up an unsteady hand, she pulls the chain of rings down, holding them to her chest. "Where are you Guy?" She whispers softly.
Guy was ramming the perimeter gates as Kara collapses onto the floor. After pulling the brass knuckles from one of his captors fingers, he had jumped into the van and headed back down the road in the direction the sniffling man had told him. They had taken him down the interstate just a few miles. "Lazy fucks," Gardner mutters as he thinks about it. Luthor would have loved to have a ex-Justice Leaguer dead on his doorstep. Then again, would anyone have cared or even noticed he reminds himself. The one person who might have was in that madman's clutches.
As he steps from the vehicle he is immediately rushed by rent-a-cops, but his mind's eye sees something different. A flood of ex-team members come at him. He fights Lanterns, Beetles and Bats. Each one falling as fast as the last as he tears through them to reach the facility. His boots never stopping for a moment. The sea of bodies he leaves in his wake will never make the evening news; in fact they will never be seen again.
Stepping through the doors he is met by Hal one more time. "She's gone already and you can't even see it," Hal whispers to him as Guy grabs him by the neck pinning him to the wall. The rage and fear in him rising in equal parts battling for control as he looks into the cocky pilot's eyes. "She burns bright…" Guy begins to squeeze crushing Hal's larynx. "...what are y-ou!" He slams Hal's head against the wall. His hand not loosening at first he stares at him. His eyes fixed in a spectrum of yellow.
"Guy!"
He turns to see her lying on the floor in a doorway ¾ of the way down the hall. She looks at him; her blonde hair hanging down covering her face. He can see his chain of rings clutched in her hand. Running to her he sees her body stripped of her costume. Laying on the floor naked as the day she fell to Earth. "I gotcha, Super Skirt," he whispers to her softly, scooping her into his arms holding her close to his chest, to his heart. Taking the rings from her hand he slips the only one he knew at that moment he could tap into. A yellow aura surrounds them.
Kara closes her eyes knowing she is safe, never seeing his connection to the yellow ring. When he lays her down in the hotel room he slips into bed next to her. Pulling the bedspread over to cover their bodies. His mind fixes on Hal's final words.
Aftermath:
A door in the facility opens and Lex steps out to assess the damage. The facilities heads of security and research rushing to his side with excuses. "Mister Luthor, we're sorry but the subject and her companion…"
He simply puts up his hand to stop them. Pausing for a moment he thinks before grinning to himself. "No need. She's in the wind now- we'll see how much she can take."