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Chapter 10

"So, can you tell me once again, what exactly do you want to find here?" Kara quirked an eyebrow questioningly. Nightwing, Supergirl and Miss Martian were currently standing in front of a huge hill made of debris and stones covered with grass almost completely. The explosion brought the whole mountain down was 4 years ago, so it looked more natural with each passing day. Nightwing was currently checking something on his wrist computer.

"According to Roxy, Scar said Subject 1 returning to base before he took off. It means someone launched the project once again, and there is a new base somewhere, apparently it's the place where they hold Roxy. We can use the old base to find a new one." Nightwing explained.

"But I thought the explosion destroyed the base completely. And if this hill is any indication…." Miss M trailed off waving towards to what was left of the mountain.

"It took down only the upper part. But I scanned this area; my computer shows all the underground tunnels are undamaged. We can go down and check for anything that could survive the explosion. That's where you step in, Miss M. Phase through and see if there's some security exit we can enter."

"I got it." Megan disappeared.

Nightwing stepped closer and put a hand on Kara's shoulder. "Look… I know it's hard for you, to go there where all those terrible memories come alive again… but think about it… he helped you escape... now you have the chance to help him." Kara turned to face him.

"I don't understand, why didn't he tell me he was alive? Why didn't look for me?" The painful expression distorted her face.

"I don't know… But you can ask Scar yourself when we find him. "

~XXX~

Meanwhile in the facility.

Roxy was sitting on her bed hugging her knees to her chest. It's just can't be happening… the one who kidnapped her, the one who locked her here, the one who was working on Antonov was none other than the one she thought about as the only family she got left. She was rocking back and forth still not able to comprehend what was happening.

"Sam… who did this to you?" she whispered under her breath. Why he works for Antonov? And how did that crazy scientist even got here? She hasn't heard about him since she escaped the facility she was experimented upon. What if Antonov has something to do with the fact Scar wasn't himself anymore? Is he able to control one person's mind? Scar said Antonov won't be here in the next two days. Is that possible to snap him out of it? Was she able to snap him out of it?

~XXX~

"I found the place where you can enter." Miss M said through her mental link. Nightwing and Supergirl rushed to the place where Megan threw a huge pile of bricks making a hole in the ground.

Kara was creeped out beyond all reason; she was rubbing her forearms trying to get the goose bumps down but it wasn't helping, everywhere she looked memories flashed in her head of that God awful place. She could hear Scar's voice urging her to follow him as he tore through the guards that held them, she had her powers but back then she was just a scared little girl, not the all powerful superhero Supergirl, and yet somehow being in this place made her feel like that little girl again.

"Take a left...I remember guards gathering here." she said pointing to the left, Nightwing nodded and looked at M'gann who floated on ahead she fazed through the metal door to the other side to make sure it was clear, a few seconds later she floated the door to the side and let them in. They were in what apparently was a rest room. Broken screen of a huge TV, destroyed furniture covered with dust, one skeleton in the corner. Apparently it was an unlucky guard who was unconscious when the explosion brought the facility down. Kara was standing in the middle of the room not daring to move. She wasn't in this room during her capture but she felt uncomfortable anyway. Nightwing nodded to them indicating they need to continue their little tour. They exited the room and headed down the main corridor through the debris and broken pieces of metal.

"Wait…" Kara trailed off and stopped in her tracks.

"What is it?" Megan turned to look at the blonde. "We're going the right way."

"I know.. it's just.. it was the main lab.. where.. where they… tortured me.. and Sam.. just give me a moment okay?" she asked hesitantly hugging herself. She wasn't sure she could go back to that place again. She spent years trying to get rid of nightmares that kept chasing and chasing her almost every night after she escaped. And now when she finally could sleep at night, she has to go through this once again. She just couldn't make herself step into that room.

"It's okay. Take as much time as you need. Megan and I will go and check the room." Richard squeezed her shoulder reassuringly and continued his stride.

He and Martian entered what appeared to be a huge half destroyed lab. There were lab tables turned upside down, broken air vents, different vessels and broken glass all over the place. Megan took a look around and gasped pressing her palm to her mouth. Nightwing turned to look at what scared his teammate and saw half-rotten half-withered bodies, bones can be seen here and there. The corpses were wearing lab coats. Apparently they were the ones who tortured Scar and Kara, the ones who weren't lucky enough to even take part in this project. Evidences of Scar's rampage could be seen anywhere. Sometimes it wasn't really a full body, but parts of it torn apart. Even being Batman's protégé made Nightwing shudder involuntarily at the sight. He knew Scar was strong, even thinking about what he could do being angry was creepy, but seeing it with his own eyes made the hair on the back of his neck stand on end. Those guys must've been really-really bad if that cheerful and outgoing kryptonian did that to them. The room was a mess but he needed information. Nightwing looked around and found a few computers, most of them were broken but one of them was lying on the floor, the case wasn't too damaged but that was a good indication that the hard drive could be intact so he stood it upright and plugged his wrist computer into it and after a few seconds he had all the files on the disk including Scar's programming manifest.

"Okay so I have Scar's programming here..." he says trailing off, he didn't notice the moment Kara stepped in, the two girls came to stand next to him and look at the diagram on Nightwing's screen.
"If I'm reading this right Scar's already in stage two, stage one was activated at the cave so he must be in stage two." he trails off again scrolling through until he finds what read 'The final stage', after reading a few lines Nightwing's face turns grim.

"What happens at the final stage?" M'gann asked, Nightwing turned to her and shook his head telling her she doesn't want to know so she dropped it. Nightwing looked around some more and went out in the halls until he found a room labeled 'Security' he kicked the door in and checked what was left of computers but the hard drives were damaged. But he put it in his bag nonetheless, so he could try to restore them later when they get back. He rummaged through the scattered files until he came to a broken laptop and some screens, the computers were smashed beyond reason so he hoped that the laptop had what he wanted, he plugged into the USB port and after downloading some of the damaged drive he smiled to himself 'Project Blizzard' the file read and it detailed everything, including its base of operations. He walked out and into the hall where Supergirl and M'gann were waiting.

"We have their position...let's go." he states walking out to where they came in.
"Thank God...this place is giving me the creeps...again…" Supergirl states as she looks at the skeletons left by Scar's rampage, she shudders one last time before stepping into the moonlight bathed area were the bioship awaited.

"We calling in the league?" M'gann asks.
"No...Scar and Roxy are our team...We'll bring them back on our own." he states with finality as he walks up the ramp and takes his seat.

~XXX~

After Roxy's captor revealed his secret identity to her taking his mask off, showing it was none other than Sam, he didn't really came to check upon her. Some of the other guards brought her food and checked if she's not up to no good. It left Roxy wondering what happened. Why wasn't he coming again? Did he remember her? Did she snap him out of this? What was going on? Knowing every passing second brings her closer to Antonov was unnerving enough to make her pace back and forth in her small room. And the fact she didn't know what was going on with Scar didn't help to get rid of this anxiety at all. She really wanted to talk to him. Even if he hadn't remembered her, she wanted to make him talk to her again. Maybe that was the sign of some sort of trust that he told her his story. He said they killed the little girl he knew. Apparently he was speaking about Kara. But she wasn't dead. So they probably made him think like this, to get all the emotions out of his mind. Roxy didn't know what to do. She was locked like an animal and she knew she has no chances to escape on her own without any help with Scar guarding her. Where's Nightwing? The night before Antonov's supposed arrival she couldn't sleep. She knew she has to have at least some sleep to be strong,. Who knows what tomorrow might bring? What if there could be a tiny little possibility to escape? She knew she had to rest, but couldn't help herself. She didn't close her eyes the whole night.

~XXX~

Meanwhile in the cave.

Nightwing was looking through the files again and again trying to find at least some hint to where Roxy was kept and where Scar could be right now. He watched tons of surveillance video records, but there was nothing useful. As for hard drive he found in the lab room, he restored most of the files he could and watched how Kara and Scar were tortured. Those scientists were very accurate, everyday reports contained a lot of smallest details about every single change in victim's or how they called it 'Object' conditions. Blood pressure, body temperature, reactions to different allergens and chemical substances, video records of different tests. He also found a few files about programming. But the information didn't really give anything except what he already showed the girls in the facility.

Laptop's hard drive gave him a lot more he could think was left in there. It appeared that experiments on Scar and Kara were connected somehow to 'Project Blizzard'. He already knew Lex was standing behind this. But knowing what kind of a person Luthor was, it was obvious the official version didn't tell even a slightest truth about this whole situation. Meteostations? 'Yeah, right.' Dick thought to himself snorting.

Digging deeper he found a locked folder named 'Blizzard details'. It could take some time to crack it, but Nightwing was called one of the best detectives for a reason…

~XXX~

Roxy heard footsteps in the corridor and sat on her bed upright awaiting and dreading what was yet to come.

It had been a long couple of days, they had him going back and forth between facilities checking experiments and taking care of prison breaks and such so he savored the little break he had as he walked down the hallway to their one solitary prisoner. He felt bad for the girl he really did and something else tugged on him but he could never place it, every time his mind drifted this girl was at the fore front of his mind. Scar sighed as he continued to walk towards the door with the technicians that would help put the girl onto the table, it seemed a bit crude to strap her to a table but Antonov had insisted on it. 'Sick bastard' Scar thought the doctor made his skin crawl.

Once the door slid open Scar's heart broke as he looked at the girl sitting on the bed with her knees pulled to her chest, he was assured she was taken care of but from the looks of it she looked like she hadn't eaten. She didn't put up any fight until she saw Scar, he saw the faintest flicker of something in her eyes as she smiled at him, was it hope? Scar winced as a few more memories passed through but they were forgotten as he began to walk down the corridor with the girl strapped firmly in the bed.

When they started to move Roxy started to hyperventilate, the weight of what was happening was finally hitting home as memories started to flash through her mind. "Welcome Marina to this science lab it will be wonderful to have you here." she heard Antonov's voice as her mind starts going into over drive.

-Flashback-

Roxy laughs as she is led down the corridor of her job, being an intern at one of the best labs in the country had its perks. She just became a freshman in college, so when one of the professors told her about this internship in one of the most well known genetic laboratories she was more than happy to take this opportunity. She chose genetic engineering as her main speciality and working in this lab gave her an amazing start in her career. She worked there as a part-timer for a couple of months. Studying in college was interesting and she liked every day of her life back then. Everybody in the lab was very nice to her, especially one of the senior assistants – Stas Kurakin. He was tall, blonde hair, broad smile, he looked very attractive so Roxy couldn't help but buy on it. They became good pals with something in between. At least that was Roxy thought. He made up a new funny nickname for her everyday and they always went to lunch together. One day he told her about this important research the whole lab was working at. It has something to do with extracting some gene from insects DNA that helped to forecast rain and other weather cataclysms. It sounded so interesting that Roxy asked more and more questions about it and one day Stas told her he could introduce her to the head of this project - a well known scientist – Grigoriy Antonov. The girl couldn't even dream of such an honor. No wonder she agreed. Little did she know, it was all just a trap for her from the very beginning. Kurakin was just preparing her, making it possible to bring her to the secret room in the lab. They needed a volunteer, but of course no one wanted to try this on their own skin. She seemed perfect candidate - young and naïve, easy to impress and deceive. When she got used to seeing the lab tests for the project everyday Antonov decided she was ready for the main experiment.

"-This way-" Antonov said with a smile, Roxy smiled back at him but couldn't help but feel a chill ride up her spine when she saw the man smile, after a few moments of walking they found themselves in front of the tube she had always seen them working on but something was off or rather...turned on. Upon closer inspection Roxy found that the tube was working and operational, they said it would be years before it was operational.

"-I can't believe it...how did you get it to work?-" Roxy asks, she turns to see a few more scientists that had walked in and were now standing next to Antonov whose smile had turned wicked.
"-it was always finished my dear...we were just waiting for the right...person to join our team-" Antonov says as he signals to the scientists, Roxy struggles as they hold her arms still and start to pull her towards the tube.

"-I don't understand! What are you doing? Let me go!" Roxy screams trying to break free.
"-So sorry but it is in the name of science-" Antonov says as he walks over to the computer and starts the tub, Roxy struggles and flails but her screams fall on deaf ears as she shoved into the tube and the door closed, she pounds and pounds on the see through door until she feels the liquid start at her feet. When she looks down she sees that the tube is feeling with an eerie looking liquid but all she can do is scream and bang on the door but nothing happens as the liquid slowly passes her mouth and nostrils and Roxy can slowly start to feel her consciousness slip away.

-End Flashback-

Roxy's eyes snap open as they begin to undo her straps and take her towards the new and improved tube, she looks around frantically in search for Scar, she sees a few technicians then her eyes lay on the man who made this all possible, Antonov was talking to one of the scientists but her concern was on the man watching her the whole way as she was placed into the nightmare she had thought she had put behind her.

Once she saw his eyes look at hers she screamed the last thing she could to snap him out of it "SAM!..."

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