Chapter Thirty Six: The Homecoming Part One.

Patricia Swann's mind was extremely foggy. She honestly had no idea whatsoever how she got here. It was a chore for her to try and piece everything together. The throbbing headache made it even more so. She had to think, she had to remember. Her mind went off course, no matter how much she tried to focus.

She knew one thing that rang out in her mind with picture perfect clarity. All that time ago, she escaped her world when it was on the verge of collapse and on the verge of destruction. It was a horrifying moment when she left. Karen, Helena, and Harry all escaped through the portal. It was her turn next and she stepped through.

Then there was fog and patchwork after that point. The next thing she knew, she was here in the middle of this park. This was in Metropolis, but it was not in her Metropolis. She laid on the ground amongst the shattered and broken pieces of Kryptonite. There was one question that pumped through her mind and she wondered where the hell she was.

Patricia tried to get up to her feet but she collapsed. Weakness was felt by her and her muscles grew numb. It was unknown to her how much time passed for her. Her mind may have been blocking out everything that happened from when she stepped through the portal until now.

"Spread out and search the area. Take everything here. I don't want you to leave any stone unturned, do you hear me?"

The loud and thunderous voice echoed for them all to hear. Patricia tried to focus on it. She got a better look in her surroundings.

She laid amongst the debris, which included some pretty big chunks of Kryptonite. It was mostly green but there were a few red pieces in the rubble.

Patricia groaned when she tried to gain her bearings. She pulled herself up on the large metallic object that was in the park. She recognized it, it was an alien ship. It resembled the one that they found Kara in but there were a few differences. It was going to be difficult to open the ship without a controlled environment of a lab at her disposal.

There was most certainly something inside that ship or perhaps Patricia would be better off in saying that there was someone inside that ship.

"Freeze!"

Patricia froze, not that she could move anywhere. Not in her state anyway, not with how sore she was.

"Please, I need….I need help."

"Oh, don't worry," the gruff voice commented behind her. "You're going to get help alright. You're going to get all of the help that you need. You're going to get helped right into an interrogation facility."

Two large men grabbed her around the arms and dragged her away from the ship. Patricia struggled against their grip but they were strong and she wasn't in the best of shape to fight them off.

"We need to secure this ship, it could be extremely valuable, and the cargo inside is important for us to obtain and utilize," the leader of the crew commented. He was the same general who showed up on the scene in Vegas, so he was in a pissed off mood to begin with after that. More alien involvement did not improve his disposition any. "Anyone who comes into this area, shoot them now, and ask questions to their next of kin. Do you hear me? We don't need any more aliens ruining this world."

There was a series of grumbling nods and a grumbling sound. This announced an arrival of a large truck that can rolling in.

Patricia tried to find a way to escape but it was very hard when an overzealous solider stuck a tazer in her back. She was shoved in the back of a truck, shackled and handcuffed.

She wondered how this could be. Through her fogged memory, all the woman knew that it was a long journey here. The meteors started raining down around the time she stepped through the portal and now she was here. Did that meteor shower cause her interdimensional problems? Or was it something else entirely? She was a woman of science so she spent some time entertaining pretty much any theory that entered her mind. Patricia's imagination ran wild with multiple theories, all of them as insane as the last one.

The general looked absolutely stoic. His stoic look faded away for a brief moment for a smugger, more self assured look. He wasn't about ready to let this one get away from him, not now, not after he accomplished so much.

"We've got it boys, we've really got something here," the general barked. He was still sore about the last invasion. There was a buzzing on his communicator. He turned to the men in uniform that he brought along with him. "Make sure that you get that loaded up into the truck. And remember, we're taking a secure route. Shoot anyone who gets even close. No one should know about this except us and our benefactors."

Now that his men got their orders, the general stepped off to take the phone call.

"Yes?" the general asked in a gruff voice.

"Your boys are on the ground at the sight of the meteor shower, aren't they?" a distorted voice asked.

"Yes, sir," the General said. There were two men he answered to, three if you counted his wife. The other was the President of this country. "A woman arrived with the alien ship and we're going to find out what she knows. Don't you worry, we're going to make sure she gets to the facility and doesn't know of anything."

"You need to move quickly," the distorted voice whispered over the phone. "There are certain parties that will be interesting in that alien ship."

"Yes, sir, yes, sir, I understand, as soon as I wrap up this call, my men will be ready to move out, don't you worry," the General said. He spoke in a rapid fire pace and it was almost like he was tripping over every single word that he came out of his mouth. His tongue seemed so tangled that he almost choked on it.

"Then get on your way," the man over the phone said.

The General nodded when he hung up the phone. There was no need for farewells. There never was a need when you were working for an outfit like Cadmus. His men turned around and looked at him.

"Is the ship secure?" the General barked.

"Yes, sir!" the man yelled. He nearly tripped over his words when he spoke.

"Good," the General said. He gave a wide grin that showed his teeth and a couple of them were rotted. "Move out."

"Gotham City was center stage to an accident at the Ace Chemical plant. Eye witness reports put Batman there, fighting a mysterious man wearing a red hood. No one quite knows what happened, but the GCPD are investigating the matter, along with any possible break ins. Rumor is that the Red Hood was working for the Metropolis crime outfit known as Intergang in an attempt to sabotage operations that was going on in the area around the plant. Rumor has it that Carmine Falcone ran these operations in the plant."

Harry only half paid attention to the news. He looked in on Alex in the other room. She was currently talking to Rebecca, who stopped by to spend the summer in Metropolis. Both of the girls were trained by Helena in self-defense. Given what they might get into when they were older, it was just as well.

For some reason, Batman refused to train Rebecca. In principle, that was something Harry agreed with. Even though in dangerous world of Gotham City and the somewhat less dangerous, but still dangerous, world of Metropolis, one needed to know how to defend themselves. RAO was sponsoring an initiative of self-defense classes for youths as well.

"The Meteors rained down in the park, Lois just heard about it," Claire said. She showed up at Harry's door. She dressed with her hair tied back in a bun and a pair of glasses on. Her attire was a somewhat conservative female business suit. She looked rather unassuming and a bit bumbling, which was the idea.

"Yes, it just came up on our scanners," Lana said. She popped her head in to join them. "Karen and Helena are coming up in a moment, and I understand that the four of you plan to take a trip to the Fortress?"

"Yes, we're going to see what we can do about bringing certain people out of stasis," Harry commented. Lana smiled and nodded at him. "You're not worried, are you?"

"Claire knows why I'm worried, if anyone was exposed to the meteors when they were hot, we've got a mess," Lana said.

She was having flashbacks to her teenage years and all of the problems with the meteor infected. It seemed like everyone in that town had powers at one point or another.

"Yes, I know what you're talking about," Harry agreed. He took both girls close to him. "You're dealing with your meteor freaks of the week."

'Wonderful, that's just what we need, more of them,' Karen said. She fought more than enough of them in her native world.

'We're going to need to monitor the situation here,' Helena informed Harry. 'You understand that, right?'

'Loud and clear,' Harry thought. 'Keep me posted through the bond link.'

Kara turned up at this moment, even though she wasn't noticed.

"I guess it's the two of us going to the Fortress then," Harry said. Kara cleared her throat and got Harry's attention.

"The three of us, if I'm not mistaken," Kara corrected him. Harry raised his eyebrow and Kara gave him a challenging expression. It was one that someone shouldn't argue, no matter what. "This is my mother we're talking about here, you know."

"Yes, I know, and yes, I'm aware," Harry agreed with her. He swept his arm around Kara and pulled her in close. "And it's also your….aunt several times removed or something like this."

"Although she might be an alternate version of me that got time displaced," Kara suggested.

Claire smiled and the three of them prepared to head off to the Fortress.

They arrived at the Fortress. Kara walked over towards her mother who was placed in a crystalized chamber. She couldn't hammer home how lucky it was Claire got to her when she did. The stasis pod was about to fail for her. It wasn't doing much better for Kara but for Alura, it was about ready to bust and bust hard.

"Harry, it's good to see you again," Lara said. Her corporeal form had a bright smile when she leaned forward to look towards Harry. "And Claire and Kara, it's good to see both of you as well."

"It's excellent to see you as well, Mother," Claire said. She gave her mother a bright smile, which was returned.

"The same to you as well, Aunt Lara," Kara said. She didn't want to sound too ungrateful but there was a question that burned in her mouth.

Fortunately for her, Lara was the one that decided to jump in for the chase.

"You're wondering about the status of your mother," Lara said. Kara nodded in response. There was a note of regret in Lara's voice when she continued. "I will not lie to you because things seem rather bleak. They are in fact rather bleak. Your mother's pod was rescued. She diverted most of the energy that they had left to keep you alive….just as any mother would have."

There was a note of warning in Lara's voice for Kara not to feel guilty. It was only natural to feel some kind of guilt. She couldn't help herself. She felt guilty, extremely guilty about the situation. Harry placed his arm around her. His grip relaxed her and she gave a long sigh in response.

"The process is rather slow going, isn't it?" Harry asked.

Lara's soft voice chimed in with the affirmation. "Yes, and I understand your plight with the two others that you've found. I understand that you're currently working with trying to bring them out of their stasis fields at RAO."

"Yes," Harry agreed. "But it's been slow going, especially with the ship that we found in the temple."

"That's unsurprising given that it's a legacy system that the knowledge of such has been lost an extremely long time ago," Lara said. She frowned. "You would need someone who had grand abilities and an affinity to technology to hack into the ship. And it would have to be a person because no computer system would be able to do so."

"That's about what I figured, but…..perhaps we should pool our resources together," Harry added.

"There is the portable version of my mother that you can use," Claire chimed in. She held a crystal in her hand. "We can hook it up at RAO and download another copy of her there."

"I'd be happy to help, especially given that you'd be able to help me as well," Lara commented with a smile. "And it would be good to know my daughter's potential mate."

"MOTHER!" Claire yelled in an absolutely mortified voice.

Kara nearly broke out into laughter at the sight of her cousin looking so absolutely mortified. That was until Claire turned around and gave Kara a cross look that could burn through steal. Kara shut up, at least for now.

"I don't think that I was supposed to inform you of that fact just yet," Lara said. There was a slight amount of mischief to her voice when she spoke. "That's my mistake."

'Harry, there's more reports coming in, well the news media hasn't been told anything,' Lois said. She jumped onto the bond link with all of the subtly of a Sherman tank. Then again, she wouldn't be Lois Lane if she was all that subtle. 'But I've been able to figure out that there was something taken from the park and someone. No eyewitness accounts as to who it was, but…the military is usually good at wrapping those loose ends up.'

'RAO has satellites, I can see if I can get a lock on any footage,' Karen thought.

'Dare, I ask the legalities of this?' Lois asked. She paused and back tracked suddenly. 'Not that I want to rip on you or anything, but it just seems kind of illegal and stuff….what you're doing, you know.'

'Well, sometimes you got to bend the rules,' Harry said. He smiled. 'But you know that better than anyone, Miss Lane.'

'Wouldn't it be technically Mrs. Potter now, given that you're bonded with her?' Kara asked.

'Seriously, a magical wedding is just that simple?' Lois asked. She was trying to wrap her head around this. 'You just stick tab A into slot B, and you're bonded for life.'

'Yes, yes, pretty much,' Harry commented. He chuckled at Lois's reaction. It was so priceless that it couldn't be beat.

'Oh and Claire sends her love,' Kara commented.

'I'm surprised not to see her on here yet,' Lois said. 'Then again, she was avoiding you. She wasn't too happy that Kara beat her to the punch.'

'I knew it!' Kara cheered in triumph. She pumped her fist up.

Claire looked at her strangely and Kara straightened up.

"There was some kind of ship that came through and there was someone that came on through with the ship," Harry informed her.

"Your bond network thing?" Claire asked.

"I prefer to the term highly advanced and sophistication Collective network," Kara said. She was so insistent on this fact.

Claire wasn't going to argue her about this. She knew better.

'Patricia!' Karen yelled suddenly.

Before she had a chance to elaborate on that statement in any way whatsoever, she bolted out of the room and out of RAO.

'Okay, Helena, she….we found her, didn't we?' Harry asked her.

'Yes, we did, but the military found her first and there's a ship….a ship that resembled what Karen's looked like,' Helena thought.

'Meet me outside in five minutes,' Harry thought. 'And Lois.'

'I'll see what I can do,' Lois said to him.

Patricia Swann woke up in a room that was cold, dark, and sterile. It made her really depressed just to be here. It most certainly wasn't the most inviting place in the world. It caused her to shiver when she attempted to hold her head up. This wasn't going as she planned, not at all.

The redhead tried to hold her head up high and with a fair amount of pride. There was something that caused the back of her head to throb though when she attempted to move and shift herself out of her predicament.

"So, you're awake, excellent, I'll be with you shortly."

Patricia wondered how she got herself into these messes. It was very likely that this was all a horrible dream. The more she thought about it, she realized that this wasn't a horrible dream.

No this was a nightmare. The woman tried to push herself out of her bindings. She found it very difficult to breathe when she moved.

"Make sure Jones is on a leash, we don't want him causing any trouble," the General commented to the men. He opened the door and shut it behind him. "So, I bet you think that you're pretty slick."

"Let me out, please," Patricia said. She didn't want to resort to begging. She was too proud to beg. Even if the ropes were about ready to cut into her and crush her, she was too proud. The predicament she was in settled in and she winced. "I can hardly breathe."

"Well it's just as well that we have you now," the General said. He reached forward and roughly held her chin up. "You're going to make sure that any humans, we're the ones that can't breathe. That's what your little game is, isn't it?"

"I'm not….I was in the wrong place, at the wrong time," Patricia said. The General backed off for a moment. "I was just in the park."

"Yes, you were in the park, after you fell from the sky and the meteor shower and that alien ship followed you," the General said. He reared his hand back and almost slapped her in the face. He stopped short. He didn't want to touch this filthy creature. "You can lie to me in your little alien logic as much as you want. But normal women who just happened to be there, do not fall from the sky. Eye witness accounts pegged you there. There's no way that you were anything but there at the time."

Patricia realized that she was backed into the wall. She shivered. She was so cold. All she wanted to do was for this end.

"That little mess in Vegas, it was just a warm up, wasn't it?" the General whispered. "And now there's this little Justice League that's forming. I've never been a fan of anyone wearing a cape. Don't trust them and now that they have their little Fortress in the sky, I hate their guts. I wonder how many of them are aliens. They come here, they take our jobs, they take our food, and I bet they don't even pay taxes."

The General raised his hand again.

"You're going to tell me what you know about that ship or you'll wish you died in that meteor shower," the General whispered. He looked completely nasty. He almost bared his teeth. "You're going to wish that you died with the rest of them. Tell me about the ship. Who's inside?"

"I don't know….."

"We're going to get that ship open and we're going to see if someone's inside," the General said. He eyed the table and the instruments on it. Needless to say, this lab was borrowed for the purposes of interrogation. The man who owned it was quite strange indeed and aptly named as such. "And you and your little alien friends are going to be sent back to where you came from in pieces. You have no place in this world. You make me sicker than those fucking Mexicans that come over to this country and expect a free ride when they can't speak a lick of English."

The General allowed himself to trail off. His acidic words still burned the tip of his young.

"We're going to keep this planet safe from any kind of alien intrusion and also keep an eye on the super powered people who are rising with increased prominence," the General said. "And if you're not willing to talk, things are going to get much more difficult for you."

Patricia thought that things were pretty difficult right now. She shuddered to think what he thought more difficult was.

"Super powered people aren't gods, and they're not above the government," the General rambled. It was obvious that he had something that he wanted to get off of his chest. These were things that he wanted to rant to the first person who would listen and since Patricia was tied up, that lucky person was her. "It's not down to the super powered capes to lord over the people. They answer only to the government and not some super powered vigilantes and their space club."

Patricia really hoped that this guy didn't speak for the general population.

"You can stew here for a little bit," the General whispered. "Unless you want to talk."

Patricia's resolve was such that she absolutely refused point blank to say a word. She was not going to get broken. The woman had nerves of steel, even though they will be tested.

"You have another hour to think about your options," the General commented. "There are ways to make you talk. Maybe we should take you apart and see what makes you tick."

Patricia refused to meet his eyes. She was trying to calculate a way out of there.

She saw the logo on the wall. It said Cadmus. She vaguely remembered that Cadmus was some super-secret covert operation in her world. Was it the same in this world? She had no idea. The lack of knowledge spooked her to be honest.

She struggled against those ropes but there was no go.

Patricia hoped, perhaps to the point of foolishness, that Harry, Karen, and Helena made it out of their ordeal alright. The portal was uncharted territory.

Without any knowledge of how much time passed, she didn't know for sure. Patricia waited for her time to tick down. She wondered what happened to the alien ship and hoped that the person inside wouldn't be victimized.

It looked so much like Karen's ship when her father brought it in. She knew how to open it but she would be damned if she told this jackass anything.

The only fear she had was them triggering the security protocols. If they did that, well this entire base and everyone in the nearby towns would go out in a blaze of glory.

There had to be a way out. Patricia was lost to exactly what that was.

Karen was single minded, focused on her objective. She arrived outside of the government base, like a woman on a mission. That's what she was, a woman on a mission. Her frustration boiled over to a certain point and she closed the gap when she started walking on in.

"You know, you could have waited."

Helena and Harry turned up in full costume and they were ready to go.

"I've waited for three years," Karen said. She was glad that they were here. Now that she was able to think more clearly, a little backup could be useful. "I've tracked her and the ship both here."

"The ship is like your ship," Harry said. Karen nodded in response. That made this far more personal.

"Another alternate version of me," Karen said. She paused and realized that she should not be making assumptions like that. "At least that's what my assumption is."

"Well you know what happens to people who make assumptions," Harry told her.

Karen smiled, she knew alright, all too well. The group decided that now they were all in one cluster, it would be best to switch to the bond link.

'How did you track it?' Harry asked her.

'The meteor radiation, there was a lot of it, on the ship, on Patricia, and on those soldiers,' Karen informed her. Harry smiled. 'Are you impressed with me?'

'Very much impressed,' Harry thought. There was no time for back patting now, they had a job to do and they would do it now. 'But we've got to get inside.'

'This building is registered to a company known as Cadmus,' Barbara commented. She was working mission support and with help from Lois, they managed to scramble together enough information to make this mission worthwhile.

Karen's tone grew increasingly grim when she spoke. 'It's not a company, well it is, but it isn't. I've heard of it before. It's a top secret branch of the government.'

'Must not be so top secret if you heard about it,' Kara chimed in. She had a certain amount of teasing to her voice.

'Well, this group does have a certain way of knowing things that it shouldn't know,' Donna offered.

'Yes, we shouldn't,' Harry agreed. 'But I remember hearing about it as well, in the other world. It exists in this world and it was backed and ran by Luthor.'

'We got a different Luthor here though,' Helena reminded him.

'Yes, I'm well aware,' Harry commented.

The base looked unassuming. If Harry didn't know better, he might have mistaken it for an abandoned base. Unfortunately for the people inside he was trying to pass it off as one, he did know better.

'Security is an absolute nightmare, but I love a challenge,' Barbara commented. 'There should be a port outside where you can plug me into and I can have you inside within ten minutes or less, or your pizza's free.'

There was a pause when everyone both in the bond and near her looked at her.

'Sorry, I couldn't resist,' Barbara said. She snickered and then grew serious. 'You know to lighten the mood because it's such a tense situation and everyone looks like they're going to lose their mind. If they haven't already. Just, you know, trying to be helpful, that's all.'

'I've found one and got you plugged in,' Karen thought.

'Trickiest system ever, the Pentagon wasn't this bad,' Barbara thought.

'You mean you hacked into the Pentagon?' Lois asked. She was full of shock and awe.

'Well, I'd deny it in front of a jury of my peers,' Barbara commented. There was a sense of smugness in her voice.

'Chloe's going to be so pissed, she never cleared that mindfield,' Lois commented.

'Well that's nice, but I think that I got you inside, and the two heaviest amounts of Kryptonite residue would be on Patricia and the ship, which are two important things that you need to liberate, obviously,' Barbara said. She cooled down for a moment and focused herself. 'Okay, right the place is a maze and I think a part of the prison was used as a prison for the meteor infected.'

'They were experimented on,' Lana said grimly. She wouldn't shed many tears for some of those meteor infected because they did try and kill her before. But she had to admit that was a raw deal.

'There are four guards on the other side of that door,' Barbara informed them. 'The moment that I open that door, you're going to have to act quickly. None of them are super powered.'

'Just random powerless mooks?' Harry asked. 'Great, we can handle this easily. We need the rest of the League on call in case things get…insane.'

'We're ready and at your call,' Diana thought. There was a lot of agreement from others, Harry was sure.

The door popped open and Helena took out two of them before they could even blink. Harry took out the other two.

Karen quickly disposed of them off to the side. They were random grunts. Their only crime was working for a nefarious outfit. They had no idea what sinister horrors lurked in the floors beneath them.

'God, this place is like a maze,' Barbara thought. 'The residue is the strongest three floors beneath you and….the residue is moving.'

'They're not going to be moving the ship once they got it here, because we know that they haven't gotten it open,' Karen thought.

'And how do we know this?' Lois asked.

'Oh, there will be a big crater in the ground instead of this lab and hundreds of people will be killed,' Karen informed her. There was a sense of dryness in her voice.

'Well, sorry for asking,' Lois said. Her frown deepened. 'I wish you good luck but….you're going to need more than that in there, aren't you?'

'Yes, we will,' Harry confirmed to her.

The elevator went to thirteen floors, all of them identical, unless one had a special code to get to the right floor, behind all of the cloaking in the room.

'Digging up the codes as we speak,' Barbara thought. 'They change them every thirty minutes….wonder how anyone gets anything accomplished. I mean there's security, but that's absurd.'

Harry looked over his shoulder and saw the soldiers behind him. They pointed their weapons. They looked to be a bit more high tech than you would expect.

"Freeze right where you stand!" the leader of the task voice said. "We will open fire."

"Freeze, interesting idea," Harry said. His voice was casual, laid back, if not a bit lazy. The green eyed vigilante looked like absolutely nothing phased him. Not even these high tech weapons pointed at him and his wives.

The weapons being pointed at his wives annoyed him more than the weapons pointed out at him. Harry took steps to correct that. He flicked a grenade from the sleeve of his uniform.

The grenade bust on the ground and released a miniature sonic attack. The cold wave locked on the troops and froze them in place.

It froze them but without the effects of being frozen. It should wear off in an hour, long enough for them to do what they can do.

'Okay, I've got the code, we're ready to do this,' Barbara thought. She was excited but at the same time nervous.

They were getting closer. It was something that Karen eagerly anticipated for many years and she wasn't about to get denied this close.

'She's beneath us, and on the move,' Karen said. She was so excited she looked like she might as well have burst from the excitement.

Harry smiled. He appreciated the fact that Karen was so excited because he was excited as well for numerous reasons.

Karen, Helena, and Harry all waited for this moment to be reunited with Patricia for years. The trio was not about to be denied now.

Patricia couldn't have fought this if she wanted to. To be perfectly honest, the horror that went through mind was beyond all description.

Her hour was up and she felt like she was on death row. The guns pointed to the back of her head didn't really improve her mood and her mood was one that was pretty grim.

"If you could have cooperated, this would have gone on a lot better," the General said. He looked like he was satisfied that they would be doing things the hard way. That would be the best way. He liked doing things the hard way. "But you just had to be stubborn. We'll figure out how to open that ship, with or without you."

Patricia didn't say anything. It was best if she shut up and played ignorant. She didn't give any indication she knew how the ship worked one way or another. She wouldn't help them if her life depended on it.

The redhead realized one extremely horrifying fact. Her life did depend on this.

After all that, after that trip here, she was going to die. Patricia might not have super powers or special abilities, as far as she knew, but she did have determination and a strong will that wouldn't be broken.

"The doctor will see you soon," the General said and the lights in the hallway went out. "GET THE LIGHTS ON!"

There was a sound of falling bodies around her. Without the light, Patricia could only begin to guess what the hell was happening around her. If she would hazard a guess, it wouldn't be anything good.

The backup power came back on and the soldiers were taken out. Patricia nearly fell back. Thankfully she landed on something soft.

She landed on a very familiar pair of breasts. They did a wonderful job in breaking her fall.

"Hello, Karen," Patricia commented. She wished that she could show more energy for being reunited.

"We're getting you out of here, and soon," Karen said. "Do you realize that I've been looking for you for three years?"

"Wow, the time displacement was that off," Patricia said. Karen led Patricia off into one direction down a long and winding hallway.

There were many long and winding hallways. Barbara said it best, it was like a maze.

"I'm just glad the three of you found your way here, but…..how did you track me?" Patricia asked.

"You're tainted with meteor rock radiation….which is something that we should check out when we get back," Karen informed her. She knew that there was a chance that Patricia developed powers because of the meteors.

And if she didn't develop powers, there was a chase that she was going to be extremely ill or worse. Karen didn't want to think of that worst case scenario.

"It's good to see you, do you have any idea where they're holding the ship?" Harry asked.

"Good to see you as well, Harry," Patricia said. There was an amount of tiredness coming from her voice. "And no, I don't really have any idea. I wish that I did, but…."

"We'll get you out of here, and then….we'll come back and find it," Karen said. She preferred to not leave without the ship, especially given the fact that she might not find it again.

"You might not have to," Claire piped in through the communication link. "Lois found another way in, Kara and I are on our way in now."

"Be careful," Harry warned her.

Harry's group ran smack dab into some trouble. There was an unassuming looking brown haired man standing at the edge of the hallway. Looks could deceive greatly when his eyes began to glow purple.

"How nice, dinner has arrived," the man said. "And Kryptonian is on the menu, a rare delicacy."

"Rudy Jones, better known as the Parasite, he absorbs the energy of anything that he touches and can use their powers," Claire informed them, when Kara described what she saw to her.

"Noted," Harry said.

The Parasite was unleashed. Harry saw the control collar on his neck and it was obvious that prevented him from attacking his captors in a fit of rage. It didn't stop him from attacking anyone else however.

To Be Continued on January 6th, 2015.