Clark and Winn "break" into Stellmoor International...


[Seattle – 15:07]

Winn nervously, but excitedly walked into the Stellmoor International building in Seattle, gripping the packet of Big Belly Burger in his right hand while his upper body remained rigid due to the tightness of the security shirt. Already with a fake security guard uniform, he waltzed past the security desk, past the elevators to a hallway on the right side of the building. Turning the corner, he scanned the words written on the doors hastily. He was late, but luckily, the guy wasn't going too mad at him for it. He found the door he was looking for – Security Control Room: AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY. Winn swiped his tag on the card scanner, unlocking the door. He was met with the sight of a disgruntled, middle-aged bald man sitting in a chair in front of the CCTV screens.

"You're late, new guy" he said, as his heavy Brooklyn accent took Winn by surprise.

"Sorry, it's my first day, had to bring something for us to start off on the right foot" replied Winn, as he held up the packet of Big Belly Burger.

"Hmm… I like you already" replied the man jovially, who immediately grabbed the packet and took out a Big Belly Buster burger. Winn sat on the chair next to him, eagerly anticipating him to take a bite of the burger. Surely enough, he did a few seconds later. Now, he just had to wait for the benzodiazepines to kick in.


"Clark, you're good to go."

Clark immediately took flight towards the balcony of Simon Lacroix's office, grasping tightly the laser scanner which would be used to pick up Lacroix's fingerprints. Lacroix's balcony doors were already open, so Clark just flew right in.

"Talk to me Winn."

"It's his offices, so his fingerprints should be everywhere. Best place to get them would be from his keyboard."

With that, Clark walked over to the keyboard and placed the tip of the scanner over it. The blue UV light highlighted the fingerprints on the keys of the keyboard. The 'alt' keys had the clearest thumb prints, and Clark waited a second for the machine to scan before he pressed the eject button, causing a plastic sheet with the print to pop out the bottom of it.

"I got it."

Within seconds, Clark burst out of the office and found himself back in his civilian clothes, walking into Stellmoor International no longer as Superman, but as Clark Kent. Walking briskly past the security desk towards the Security Control Room, he found Winn standing by the door, waiting for him. As Clark walked past him, Winn tossed him the security badge he needed to use the restricted access elevator. Clark simply nodded thankfully as he continued to walk ahead, making his way to the elevator. The badge worked like a charm, as it opened the elevator doors for him.

"The servers are on floor 13."

Stepping out of the elevator as it reached the 13th floor, Clark immediately took a sharp left turn, navigating his way through the hallway until he reached the server room. He placed the plastic sheet against the fingerprint scanner, and pressed it down. Surely enough, it worked like a charm, as Clark opened the door, leading him into a small office-like room, shaped like an L. He entered, turning right at the far corner of the room, to find another door, this one unlocked. It led him to the server room, with the servers placed against the walls, surrounding the three monitors in the center of the room.

"Right, so where do I plug this in?" asked Clark, as he took out the hard drive he was keeping in his pocket.

"Look right next to the central screen, there should be a wire with a connection port for transfers."

Clark hastily grabbed it, and plugged the hard drive in. The prompt immediately appeared on the computer screen, asking for confirmation for a full data transfer. Yes.


Winn sat back on his chair, watching the data transfer anxiously as he couldn't stop his foot from uncontrollably tapping. With terraflops of data having to be transferred, it was taking several minutes for it all to transfer. Winn glanced at the camera monitor of the board meeting Lacroix was supposed to be in. He wasn't there anymore. Winn hastily looked over the other cameras, trying to catch a glimpse of where Lacroix was. He was outside the room, making a call. Within seconds, several guards in the facility near the server room abandoned their positions.

"Uhh, Clark, you have a problem."

"What?"

"Lacroix knows you're here, and there's a ton of guards heading your way."

"The download is 92% complete."

"Clark, you're not going to have time to get out of there if you stay for the rest."

"Of course, I will. I'm Superman."

"Point taken." More seconds passed, and the platoon of guards spearheaded by Lacroix were closing the distance to the mainframe room, "Clark, you have to get out of there."

"99%."

Winn watched as Lacroix placed his thumb against the scanner before flinging the door open, causing him to no longer contain his stress, "Clark, go now!" he screamed.

"Done."

With that, Clark basically disappeared from the screen, as Lacroix and the guards ran into the server room to find nobody. Winn realised that guards would soon probably converge on his location too, and quickly started tapping into the security camera footage, removing all the footage of him and Clark. As soon as he was done with that, he ripped the security shirt off, revealing an ordinary one below. Mission accomplished.


(National City – 16:31)

"Hello."

Oliver Queen answered the phone call from J'onn as he stared out the window of Kara's apartment, hoping to hear some good news.

"Winn and Clark are back. They got the data."

"Great, great. That's good. How long before we find something?" asked Oliver, eagerly.

"The data is still encrypted, but it's crackable. It should only take Winn a couple of hours to get through, but then sorting through a global company's entire data set is probably going to take some more time."

"Alright. Just keep me posted."

With the data in their hands now, it was only a matter of time before the public knew who Simon Lacroix really was.