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Chapter 28

"What happened?" J'onn asked when he and the rest of the DEO team arrived back at headquarters only fifteen minutes later to find things in complete disarray.

"Pestilence. She's infected Kal and Doctor Milo with some sort of disease that she releases via her fingernails. Kal is holding it off thanks to those concentrated sun bandages but I'm afraid we'll lose Doctor Milo if we don't do something quick," Supergirl informed the Martian and Alex.

"Where is Winn?" Alex wanted to know. She was going to need his help to reverse this if they could.

"He and Ricky are in the lab trying to figure out the difference between Pestilence's DNA and the virus's. He thinks there is a cure to be found in there," Kara explained.

"He's right. I'll go help him," Alex said before running down the hall to help.

"What they are talking about could take hours or days or..." J'onn started. The implication was that never was a possibility. They were dealing with something they only had a limited understanding of and no way to really know if they were right. Still they were doing things every day that defied what any normal person could think was possible.

"I know. We just have to hope it doesn't," the blonde heaved a sigh.

"Supergirl! Pestilence wants to talk to you!" Gary, one of the prison guards, ran up to her.

"What does she want?" Kara wasn't sure she wanted to talk to the Worldkiller.

"It's not the Worldkiller version who offering. It's the human. She claims she's Doctor Grace Parker, she works at National City General, and she can help. I have Steve running her credentials," Gary explained.

"Take me to her," the blonde told him. They quickly worked their way to the holding cells and there stood the woman claiming to be a doctor.

"You think you can help with Pestilence's virus?" Supergirl gave her a look that told the woman all she needed to know. The Kryptonian wasn't sure that she was telling the truth and the woman could hardly blame her.

"I know I can. Pestilence has been wearing me down. Trying to make me stop helping people but in so doing, she allowed me to see more than I think she realized," Grace said. Kara nodded and had Gary open the cell, letting the human portion of Pestilence out.

"Follow me," the blonde instructed and the woman nodded, quickly falling in line behind the Maiden of Might. They reached the lab and Winn looked up from his work but before he could say anything, Grace spoke up,

"Have you isolated the virus?"

"Yes, and the slight variations between it and Pestilence's DNA are either eluding me or just too minute that I'm missing it," Alex frowned without looking up from the microscope.

"Do you have a medical degree?" The Asian woman raised an eyebrow.

"I'm a scientist," Alex gave her look.

"Excellent, I'll need help with what comes next. May I?" She asked pointing to the microscope. The redhead let her look through the device.

"You've done an excellent job. Just a couple things that only I would know about. Pestilence was hard to fight but she wasn't always so careful or rather she refused to think that I was smarter than her," Grace said. She pulled away from the microscope, grabbed a pen and a pad of paper, and jotted down a few things. She then handed them to Alex.

"This should make the virus inert. It isn't a perfect cure but it should buy us some time to actually destroy it. We need more of Pestilence's DNA to perfect the cure," the Asian woman told them.

"How long will it take to manufacture?" Supergirl asked.

"I'll need thirty minutes," Alex said.

"You don't have thirty minutes. Doctor Milo just took a turn for the worst," Winn held up his tablet, the video feed from the medical lab, playing showing the good doctor starting to have seizures.

"I need all the help I can get," the redhead told them.

To Be Continued…