Here it is everybody! I finally explain everything about the mysterious Kryptonian in this chapter, but I feel like its kind of confusing… partly because I made most of it up as I went along. So bear with me on that. This chapter is mostly dialogue, and is dedicated to the friendships and tensions that are becoming solid among the team.
Chapter Fourteen: Target Practice
Leaving The Hole's airspace wasn't as easy as anyone had hoped. Turrets on the roofs of the complex fired a barrage of large, bizarre looking robots. The front of the robots looked like demonic piranhas, and their jaws, outfitted with razor sharp steel teeth, snapped open and closed rapidly. The back ends of the robots were basically missiles, with flame erupting from the back, propelling the vicious robots quickly through the air.
"What are those?" Jesse asked frantically.
"War Sharks." Ethan grimaced.
The War Sharks quickly caught up to the Aquaship and sank their teeth deep into the exterior! The wings and other parts of the body were shredded by the rapidly slicing fangs. Then, after a few minutes of eating into the steel, the War Sharks detonated! The explosions were each relatively small, but numerous and powerful. The entire ship rocked violently, holes were blown in all the walls, and lights died.
"This is bad!" Flo screamed from the cockpit. "They just took out the main battery, and destroyed the wings and rotors! I won't be able to keep this thing in the air very long!"
The smoke was thick inside the ship, choking the team. "Fate, get a force field up around us!"
"Alright…" Fate held out her hands and tried to cast the spell, but the rocking of the ship made it difficult to focus. For a moment, a force field appeared around the ship. And then it collapsed in, smashing the flying sub with a wave of pure force, rocking it even more!
"Fate, what the hell are you doing?" Ethan shouted.
"I'm sorry-"
Then the ship was hit by another wave of War Sharks, splitting a chunk of floor, and Allie fell straight through! They were over the ocean now, and Allie shrieked, falling toward the water at a blinding speed. Without a second thought, Tommy leapt down after her. No way I'm losing her now, not after everything we just went through! He thought. He went into a nose-dive and quickly caught up to Allie. He reached out his hand, pushing hard against the rushing air, and grabbed onto hers. Then he spun around and with his free hand, launched a grapple up toward the sky, hoping that it would latch onto something.
Then, as the grapple soared upward, Allie crashed into the water. Before Tommy could hit the waters, the grapple latched onto a moving War Shark, and ripped him back up through the air. Allie came splashing out with him, and the War Shark pulled them through the air at several hundred miles an hour. They pulled up to the War Shark, at Tommy quickly kicked off of it, jumping back toward the Aquaship. He nearly missed the hatch, when Jesse reached out and caught his free hand. The speedster them struggled for a moment to pull Tommy up, while he pulled Allie up. She was soaking wet, and shivering.
"I can't keep this thing in the air any longer guys!" Flo shouted.
"There's an island up ahead!" Quinton shouted back.
The ship dipped downward and started to tumble out of the sky. Everyone grabbed the walls and braced for impact. It hit the water first, and Flo managed to make it glide across the ocean surface, until finally it slammed into the beach. There was a violent jerk, and the ship pressed through the sand like a meteor, throwing up a choking shroud of dust. After almost five minutes, the shaking slowed down, and the ship rolled onto its side.
The team took a minute to recover and catch their breath. "Everybody alive?" Tommy asked. The group all responded with an uneasy 'yes.' The eight carefully stepped out of the ship, and onto the ruined beach of the small island.
"Think this place is inhabited?" Troy asked, looking around the island's desolate surface.
"Probably not. But it will be as soon as Darkseid's boys find out we're here." Ethan said.
"Flo, how long will it take for the ship to repair itself?" Tommy questioned.
"From this damage?' Flo frowned. "At least four weeks. And that's being optimistic."
"We definitely can't stay here four weeks. Is there any way you could speed that up?"
"Not really. Not without the Atlantean tech needed for repairing it."
"Maybe we could build a big raft or something?" Jesse suggested.
"And get blown to pieces the second we're on the water?" Ethan scoffed.
"He's right; we'd never survive on a raft." Troy sighed. "Maybe you should call Corey. He's probably got boats stashed away somewhere."
"Can't, the communicator broke during the crash." Tommy sighed, pulling the broken piece of technology from his pocket.
"I could probably repair that with some circuitry from the ship." Quinton suggested.
"See what you can do, Q." Tommy tossed him the communicator, and he headed off to the ruined ship to find parts he could use. Flo followed him.
"Hey guys, I think something's wrong with Allie!" Fate shouted. Tommy turned to see the blond haired girl lying in the dirt, shivering. Her face was pale, and her lips and fingers were blue…
"Hypothermia." Troy said quickly.
"Ah crap… Allie hit the water before I caught her, that combined with the rushing air on the grapple must have done it…" Tommy groaned, and helped Allie up off the dirt. She was trying to speak, but was shaking too hard. Tommy removed his jacket and wrapped it around her. Then he looked to the others. "Ethan and Troy go and find firewood. We're obviously going to be here overnight, plus Allie needs heat. Jesse and Fate, see if you two can find food. I don't want to risk fishing in these waters if we don't have to."
"Got it." Troy nodded, and he and Ethan headed off into the woods. Fate and Jesse went too, albeit reluctantly. Tommy sat Allie down against a large rock, and sat down next to her. He held her tightly, doing his best to try and warm her up.
"It's going to be alright Allie."
"S-s-s – stop being – mushy." She said through her chattering.
"There's no way I'm letting you die after I went through all that work to get you back."
They sat in awkward silence for a long time, Allie shivering and Tommy trying to make her warm. Jesse came zooming over a few minutes later, a bundle of twigs in one arm, and a purse in the other. "I found some crap out in the forest and brought it over here. It isn't much, but the others are still looking." He threw the twigs down and rubbed his hands together at super speed, building up heavy friction, until the heat was enough to set the twigs on fire. It was a small fire, but Tommy and Allie got as close as they could to the warmth.
"Nice purse Jess." Tommy said.
"Shut up, it's Fate's." Jesse grumbled. "I found a coconut and threw it in there."
"A coconut?" Tommy raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah, you know, big brown thing that grows on trees? I found this one on the ground, I think it's pretty old, but it's better than nothing." Jesse pulled out a large brown orb from the purse. A beetle crawled across it. "Damn, these bugs just won't stay away from it!" He shouted, flicking the beetle off.
Allie put two and two together, and laughed through the shivering. Tommy caught on too, and had to smile. "Jesse, that was a dung beetle man."
'What's that mean?"
"That isn't a coconut dude, it's a dung ball."
Jesse's eyes opened wide and he threw it across the beach. "Well I'm glad I didn't eat it!" Allie was still shivering, and Tommy moved her closer to the fire.
"Don't worry Allie. We'll get you warm."
"Hey, since you guys are all huddled up for story time, there's something I need to tell you." Jesse said seriously. "About my sister."
"What about her?" Tommy asked. He didn't care to hear it all that much, but he wanted something to distract Allie from the cold, so he decided to encourage Jesse's story.
"Alright. Her name was Jessica…" Jesse pulled out his locket, and flipped it open to the family picture he kept. He pointed to her in the picture, a pretty girl with fiery amber hair and bright green eyes. "During the invasion, my dad, Wally West… he was one of the last heroes standing, he made it a long time through the war. But not forever. Apokolips used my older brother Jai as bait, to lure my dad into a trap… and they both got killed."
"Ok." Tommy nodded.
"My mom died too, they refused to let anybody live. Jessica and I barely escaped, and we survived on our own for quite a while. Then, one day… one day I really screwed up. I stole a gun from a soldier, figuring I'd be able to make a lot of money off it, but it turns out that the gun was tagged. They used it to track me, and they found Jessica and I inside an abandoned subway tunnel. They surrounded us from both sides. Jessica, she was a better fighter than me… she cleared a path, but then they got her. I was running ahead, and I watched this parademon grab her… I listened to her scream for my help, but… I was too afraid. I never turned back for her, I just kept on running. I escaped, and I heard the tunnel collapse behind me." Jesse choked up, tears running down his face. "I let my sister die, because I was too scared to help her."
"Jesse…" Tommy started, but paused, having no idea how to approach the subject. He decided to just go and say what Allie would have said, if she were able to talk at the moment. "It wasn't your fault Jesse."
"Yes it was!" His teary eyes darted up. "I led them right to us, and then she counted on me to help her, she screamed for my help Tommy! But I was so scared…"
"If you had gone back to help her, you'd both be dead, and that wouldn't have done any good at all." Tommy reasoned. "At least now you can make a difference, you can avenge her."
"I wanted to avenge her I would have stayed behind and let myself get torn apart." Jesse grumbled. "I, um… I don't know. I guess I just thought you guys should know." He got to his feet, and zoomed off to continue helping Fate.
"You've changed a lot" Allie said in a low voice.
"What are you talking about?"
"A month ago, you would have told Jesse that it's all in the past and he should shut up and forget about it." She smiled a bit. "But now, you just tried to actually comfort him. In your own uncomfortable way, sure, but at least you tried."
"I guess." Tommy sighed. "It's the whole leadership thing. I'm finally starting to figure it out, everybody works best under different situations. Like, Jesse has low self-esteem, so you need to boost him up with some positive reinforcement. Then there's Troy, he thinks pretty highly of himself, so with him, you have to be harsh or you won't get much of a response. It's just that sort of thing, everybody responds differently to different types of leadership, and I'm starting to figure it all out."
"What do I respond to?" She asked tiredly.
"Emotion." Tommy said quickly. "You're very empathetic, if a person puts out emotion, you'll respond to it accordingly. Quinton, he responds to logic. You have to explain the reasoning behind your orders, and then Q will work well. Ethan, with him it's all about options. If Ethan feels like you're giving him orders, he turns rebellious. You have to make it seem like your giving him suggestions instead of orders, let him feel like it's his choice, and he'll usually do what you ask. And Flo, she's all about the tough love. She likes to ignore the reality of things and make it all seem less bad than it really is. I find that I have to be kind of hard on her, make her accept things how they are, and she'll perform well."
"Wow. Do you sit an analyze everybody, or does that just come naturally to you?"
"A little bit of both. Are you feeling any better?"
"Yeah, warmer than I was, definitely. So… what's the deal with Troy? I've pretty much got Ethan and Fate figured out already, but Troy… he seems complicated."
"One of my two half-fathers was his father, and his mother was the sister of mine. We have no idea what to call that, so we just decided to call ourselves brothers. Troy is very… well, like you said, complicated. He's very smart, but that intelligence actually depresses him. He understands everything almost too well, to the point where he really can't see much hope in anything. He covers it up with his nonchalant attitude toward everything; I think it's easier for him to deal with things if he can convince himself he doesn't care."
"Ok, you need to stop this Tommy." Allie said with a grin.
"Stop what?"
"Stop being so understanding of everybody. That's my job."
"Well once you're back on your feet, I'll be happy to let you get back to it. I prefer being the solitary hard ass." Tommy grinned back.
"Good, that's just the way I like you." Allie laughed. "Although, I don't mind you actually being able to carry on a conversation now and then. That change can stay."
"Don't count on it."
(In the Woods – Same Time)
Troy and Ethan had found a few dead trees lying around, and Troy quickly took his sword to cut the wood into movable pieces. Ethan was releasing small but hot waves of static onto the wood, trying to evaporate all the moisture so that it would burn better.
"You don't talk much do you?" Troy asked, swinging down on another piece of wood.
"I don't have much to say."
"But you have a lot on your mind."
"What makes you say that?" Ethan inquired as he continued his work.
"I don't know, you just always seem to be thinking." Troy shrugged. "Like right now."
"Yeah."
"Anything you want to get off your chest while we're out here alone?" Troy raised an eyebrow.
"Nope."
"Sure?"
"Why do you care?"
"Just looking for a way to fight off the impeding boredom coma."
"Huh…" Ethan sighed. "I'm not sure Alex was the traitor."
"What? Dude, he shot you in the back and stuck you to a wall!"
"Yeah, he was definitely a traitor. I just don't think he was the traitor. Like, I don't think he was the one feeding info to Grayven."
"Why not?"
"Well, what would he have to gain from it? His goal was just to kill Granny Goodness, right? So why would it benefit him at all to be Grayven's informant?"
"I see your point there." Troy nodded. "So who do you think is the traitor?"
"You want my honest answer?"
"Yeah."
"You."
There was a long pause. Finally, Troy spoke calmly, "Me? You think it's me?"
"Yes. That would explain why we were sent to Warworld instead of just getting executed. We picked up a spy. I think Apokolips planned for us to escape Warworld the whole time, and they planned for us to leave with an informant. You."
"Interesting idea but-"
"I'm not done. You say you were in Warworld since you were a little kid, but if that's the case, how the hell are you alive? You're tough, but I doubt you seriously went around beating up four-armed steroid aliens when you were nine!"
"They didn't put me into fights until they knew I was old enough to put on a good show."
"So Warworld has a nursery? Is that what you're telling me?"
"Dubbilex took care of me."
"The psychic goat dude raised you?"
"Yes."
"Whatever. The point is, I don't trust you. You're… too perfect. You've got everyone convinced that you're such a great, kind, sensible guy, and I don't buy it."
"Well I'm glad we had this little talk." Troy muttered. He grabbed up a bundle of firewood, and headed off. "I'm bringing this to Tommy."
"Probably gonna' stop and report to Darkseid first." Ethan said under his breath.
"Hey, Ethan…" Troy said suddenly, and turned around to face his teammate. "I'd be careful what I say if I were you. After all, who is Tommy going to side with? His own brother… or a black energizer bunny with a temper?"
"What did you just say?" Ethan narrowed his eyes.
"Think about it, ok Ethan? I'd hate to see you do something stupid." Troy grinned, and then continued off into the woods.
(Near a Small Stream – Same Time)
Jesse and Fate had found a small reservoir of water, and knew that where there was water, there would be growth. They searched the banks of the stream and sure enough, found wild strawberries growing. "These aren't much, but it'll keep everybody alive for a bit." Jesse said, and moved into pick them.
"Hold on." Fate stopped him. "I think I can make more." She closed her eyes, held out her hand, and uttered a phrase in Latin. For a second, the strawberry plants began to rapidly grow, and produce bigger fruit in large quantities. Then Fate's concentration faltered, and the plants burst into flames!
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Jesse shouted and started splashing water onto the burning plants, but it was too late. The strawberries were now virtually nonexistent. "Are you kidding me? What – the hell was that?"
"Oh my God, I'm so sorry!" Fate fell to her knees. "That was so not supposed to happen!"
"Sorry? You just burned the only food we could find!"Jesse screamed. Then he looked to Fate, and immediately felt bad when he saw the tears splashing onto the ground. "Come on, don't cry! That's making it really hard to keep yelling at you!"
"I'm useless!" She pulled on her hair and sat along the side of the stream. "I haven't done one single thing right today."
"Yeah, that's actually true." Jesse nodded. She shot him a glare and he said, "What? I'm not going to lie just to make you feel better."
"I know." She sighed and buried her face in her knees. "I hate my powers!"
"I know how you feel." Jesse sat down next to her.
"How?"
"Well, I know what it's like to screw everything up. You know, if it weren't for my stupidity, then parademons wouldn't have attacked us the first night I met Tommy. So in a way, I kind of started this whole mess we're in now."
"I just… it feels like everything is always against me, you know?" Fate looked up at him.
"Yeah. I get it." He nodded. "But hey, there's a reason for everything right? Maybe something good will come of this."
"I wish I could believe that. I just don't buy the whole 'destiny' thing. The monks were always telling me that it's all planned out, from the cradle to the grave. But if that's true, the person making those plans must really hate me."
"Wow, you don't believe in destiny?"
"Why are you so surprised?"
"Well it's just… you magic types are normally into that crap. Plus your name is Fate, so…"
"Actually that's just my middle name to be honest. I don't use my first name much because it's kind of embarrassing."
"What is it?"
"Promise you won't tell anybody?"
"Sure."
"Ok, my real name is… Zattina."
After a moment of silence, Jesse started laughing obnoxiously. "Zattina? Are you serious?"
"Well my mom's name was Zattana! It's kind of a family thing."
"Ok, ok… Zattina. Believe it or not, it's better than my middle name." Jesse shrugged.
"What is it?"
"Its… its Skipper." As soon as Jesse said this, Fate burst out laughing.
"Hold on, so you're Jesse Skipper West?"
"Yeah, my dad thought it was funny." Jesse folded his arms.
"Interesting." Fate smiled. "Well… should we get back to the others and tell them how I charred our berries?"
"Yeah, it's getting pretty dark." Jesse agreed. "And hey, its not that bad… I picked up a coconut shit-ball."
"What?"
"Never mind."
They both stood up and stretched. "I'm just dreading the moment when I have to explain to everybody how I can't control my own powers." Fate said grimly.
"Well… we could practice." Jesse suggested.
"Practice how?"
"I don't know, what do you have trouble with the most? I'll think of something."
"I'm pretty bad at levitating things. I usually blow them up or something."
"Then we'll start there!" Jesse clapped his hands enthusiastically. Then without warning, he picked up a rock, and threw it at her. The rock hit Fate in the head, and knocked her flat on the ground.
"Jesse! What the hell are you doing?"
"You were supposed to stop it before it hit you!" Jesse shouted.
"You could have given a warning first!"
"Then it wouldn't have been a reflex. You need to get used to reacting quickly, parademons won't give you a warning." The speedster reasoned.
"Alright… throw it again."
"Got it." Jesse whipped the rock at her again. She flinched, but this time the rock stopped in mid air, and she held it there with her magic.
"I caught it!"
"There you go. Now let's practice controlling it." Jesse suggested.
"How?"
"Try to hit me with it."
"With the rock?"
"Yes."
"Are you sure?"
"Fate, I could dodge those things with my hands behind my back." Jesse grinned. "In fact, I will." Jesse pulled off his jacket quickly, and used it to tie up his own hands behind his back! "Ok, give it your best shot Fate!"
She focused a moment, and then launched the rock forward. Jesse dodged in a blur, with total ease. "See? Told you I could-" Suddenly a second rock flew into his head, knocking him on the ground. "What the heck was that for?" He shouted.
"You have to get used to reacting quickly." Fate said with a smile.
"Ha-ha." Jesse got to his feet. "Let's keep this going. Give me your best shot." As soon as Jesse said this, four more rocks flew his way! He dodged three of them, the other hit him in the stomach! Then one got him in the shoulder, and he backed up. "Hey, slow down a minute I-" Then a rock flew into his groin, and he let out a loud, sharp cry and fell on his knees. More rocks sailed his way, and Fate laughed.
(Other side of the Stream)
Troy was carrying the bundle of wood toward the camp site, and stopped in his tracks when he saw something bizarre in front of him. On the other side of a small stream, Jesse stood with his hands behind his back, while Fate blasted him with a hail of rocks. "What?" Troy laughed quietly and edged behind a tree. He watched this strange scene with a lot of amusement.
He saw Jesse take a groin shot, and stifled another laugh. The onslaught lasted a few more seconds, before suddenly a rock stopped in the air, and started to glow brightly. Fate looked horrified and yelled, "Jesse get back!" And as she and Jesse hit the ground, the rock exploded, and left a smoldering hole in the ground!
"Oh thank God." Jesse moaned. "I don't think I could take another stomach hit."
"Are you ok?" Fate yelled to him.
"Yeah, yeah, fine. I lost my baby-making privileges, but I was probably never going to use those anyway." Jesse grunted as he struggled onto his feet. "You did pretty well though."
"No I didn't, I turned a rock into freakin' C4!" Fate looked down at her feet.
"Well, I mean before that." Jesse walked toward her. "You'll get better, we just need practice. I promise you'll get better soon."
"I hope so."
"I know so. Now, could you please untie my hands? I think I may be bleeding from my testicles, and I really need to check." Jesse said uncomfortably.
"I'm really sorry about that." Fate said, and moved to untie his hands.
Troy backed up behind the tree, still chuckling. But a serious look flashed into his eyes. "So Fate can't control her powers. That's an interesting little twist…"
(Back at the campsite – One Hour Later)
Everyone had gathered. Allie had pretty much recovered, and she, Tommy, Quinton, Flo, Troy, Ethan, Jesse and Fate sat in a circle around the fire. "So how long have you and Quinton been together?" Allie whispered to Flo.
"What?" Flo said innocently. "Why would you think we're together?"
"Nice try, but last time I checked, Quinton doesn't wear lipstick." Allie smiled, and Flo looked over to see that Q had red smeared around his lips.
"Alright, yeah." Flo whispered. "Don't tell anybody, ok? We're waiting for the right time to drop that bomb on everybody."
"Got it." Allie smiled and pulled away from their hushed conversation.
"Hey Q, do you think you'll be able to fix that communicator?" Tommy asked.
"Well, it's iffy." Quinton sighed. "Most of the circuitry I picked up from the sub was heavily damaged. I might be able to make it work, but it'll be a few days at least before I can say for sure. I have a lot of tinkering to do."
"Do what you can. You might be our only way out of here. We definitely can't sit around for four weeks while the ship recovers, especially with what little food we have." Tommy reasoned.
"Hey Jesse, how did you get so bruised up dude?" Troy asked innocently, looking to the speedster.
"Oh. I um… fell down a river bank." Jesse responded.
"Really? The river bank I saw was pretty small. I certainly don't think it'd do that." Troy said.
"Well, I fell a couple times." Jesse laughed. He had promised Fate he wouldn't tell anyone about her lack of control, so he had to lie.
"Oh." Troy leaned back next to Tommy. "That's weird, considering your shoes are built for traction and everything…" He continued.
"I fell, ok? What's your deal?" Jesse demanded.
"I just want you to tell me the truth Jesse. After all, trust is very important." Troy said, and looked directly at Ethan while he said it. Ethan glared at him, and then looked back toward the fire.
"We should set up a shelter of some kind. We can't just sit out here in the open all night." Tommy said while he stoked the fire.
"I'm sure Fate can take care of that. Can't you Fate?" Troy asked loudly.
"Um… I don't know about that." She said sheepishly.
"Why not? With your powers, it should be no trouble for you to move a little earth and build us a shelter." Troy leaned forward and smiled at her. "After all, it's not like it's going to blow up or anything, right?"
"Stop it Troy." Jesse barked, looking him in the eye. "I don't know who you think you are, but I have a feeling it's not who we think are you."
"What's going on with you guys?" Tommy asked.
"Nothing. Right Jesse?" Troy asked calmly.
"Yeah. Nothing." Jesse nodded, but kept his eyes locked on Troy.
"So I guess the whole Kryptonian thing was a bust." Flo said, hoping to change the subject.
"Oh yeah, The Hole turned into such a mess that I forgot about the Kryptonian!" Jesse agreed.
"Oh, I can't believe I forgot to tell you this!" Quinton said abruptly. He jumped forward and pulled Tommy's video journal out of his pocket.
"You took my journal?" Tommy shouted.
"I needed it." Quinton said, and then turned the device on. "You see, while I was inside the database looking at all the inmates, I plugged this into the computer and downloaded all of the files onto it, in case I had to get out quickly. Which I did."
"Ok, go on." Tommy nodded.
"So I saved everything in that database on this journal, and earlier I was looking through it, and I did find something on the Kryptonian!"
"What is it?" Flo asked, jumping up to look at the screen.
"It says here that his name was Cody Kent. But here's the catch, he was not Superman's son!"
"Then who was he?"
"Supergirl's. That's why there no children other children on record for Superman, he didn't have any other children! But his cousin Kara Kent did."
"Hold on, who was the father?" Fate asked.
"That's the thing, no one actually knows. You see, Kara eventually traveled to the future, where she chose to stay because she fell in love with the future Braniac. But while in the future, she came across a child with Kryptonian powers, locked up in an old Cadmus base, cryogenically frozen. She unfroze the child and read up on some files, and learned that he was actually her son! The father, however, was someone who she would later have met, had she stayed in the present. She didn't know the man in this time. So this child simply took her last name, but here's the catch; he was fading out of reality, because Kara didn't stay in her own time, and therefore the child never would have been born."
"So he doesn't exist?" Tommy inquired.
"Hold on, I'm getting to that. To save the child's life, she sent him back into the present to find his father, and Braniac put him on a time-loop using future technology… I won't get into it all, but basically he could survive in the present. And of course during The Invasion, he was taken captive."
"So he's being held at The Hole?" Flo asked.
"No. He used to be held at The Hole, but they found him impossible to control. They were going to kill him, but Darkseid wanted to be able to use him as bait, should the need ever arise. So instead, they took him to a Cadmus facility, and re-froze him in his stasis chamber! He's been there for years!" Quinton concluded.
"Ok, so where is this facility?" Troy asked.
"Well, that's the interesting part. You see, in the invasion they devastated everything. Only one Cadmus building was left even somewhat operational… and it just happens to be the very same building that Corey is currently using for a base!"
"Are you serious?" Tommy gasped.
"Absolutely."
"So do you think Corey has already found the kid then?" Allie asked.
"Doubt it. You see, it'd be in the lower basement, which is well hidden. I doubt Corey even knows it's there."
"Well that's all the more reason to get that communicator fixed." Tommy said.
"I know. I'll work on that." Quinton nodded.
"So now we know where the Kryptonian is. We have Allie back. And we got rid of Alex, our traitor. Things are looking pretty good, except that we're trapped on a deserted island." Jesse smiled.
"Yes they are." Troy nodded.
"Guys, something's coming!" Flo shouted. Everyone quickly looked out to the sea, and saw a large gray colored vessel sailing toward the island.
"What is that?" Allie asked.
"I don't know, that's definitely not an Apokoliptian ship." Ethan answered.
"It's not one of Corey's either, he wouldn't be able to hide anything that big." Troy said.
"So who's coming our way?" Jesse asked frantically.
"Not sure." Tommy stepped forward and drew his knife. "But be ready to fight it."