62 Months After the Destruction of National City

"How's Kara?"

Lex dropped his case of tools in surprise, wheeling around to see Alex stepping from the shadows.

"I assume she's going to be okay?"

"You shouldn't be here Alex." Lex asserted, though he supposed Supergirl wouldn't overhear them given her state.

Hawkman had arrived at the Hall of Justice demanding that Kendra left the Regime. He had never directly joined the Regime or the Insurgents, in fact no one had seen him for months before the destruction of National City. Out of the blue, he had turned up insisting that he and Kendra left, that neither of them had a place in the Regime. Kendra had disagreed, had wanted to remain at Supergirl's side protecting the planet, and Carter rounded on Kara. Even with a chunk of Kryptonite in his mace, he hadn't stood a chance against Supergirl. The fight had ended with Hawkman's neck snapped and his lifeless body thrown into the L-Corp labs for Lex to study.

"I know, but this is long overdue. The Regime can fight as many battles as it needs to. I can't…I'm running out of options."

"The Kryptonite that Hawkman used was synthetic, it's already degraded beyond the point of use. So, unless you know where we can find some…"

"I do. Under Queen Mansion."

"You can't be serious—"

"Oliver built a kryptonite weapon that Supergirl doesn't know about. A failsafe."

"What's the catch?" Lex asked. "Why haven't we looked into this before now?"

"Oliver designed safeguards into the weapon, it needs DNA from people close to Supergirl. Myself, him, Sara, others…"

"So, people who are either dead or with the Regime?"

"Yes."

"Hmmm…" Lex paused for thought, his eyes drifting for a moment.

"What?"

"That's the answer, right there!" Lex's eyes went wide.

Alex followed his gaze. Lex was staring at one of the clone tanks, a long dead duplicate of Supergirl floating in the tank gel, glowing eerily in the blue fluid. After everything that had happened with Bizarro, Alex didn't want to think for a second that Lex had plans to try and duplicate the rest of the Justice League.

"That twisted Supergirl clone?" Alex drew her eyebrows together.

"Not exactly," Lex began with a smirk. "We need the Justice League to operate the weapon, but who says they have to be from our Earth?"

She hated admitting it, but Lex was brilliant.

"Am I understanding you right," Alex began, a little of Lex's grin making its way onto her face. "You want to abduct alternate versions of the Justice League from an alternate universe and use their DNA to unlock the Kryptonite weapon?"

Lex shrugged. "Pretty much."

"And you know where to find them and how to bring them here?"

"There where is simple," Lex began casually as if he had all the details figured out after only a moment of thinking. "STAR Labs has been tracking and compiling data on alternate Earths for years…"

Alex began to understand his plan. "Data we can hack into. But The Flash is the only person I know can travel between realities and he isn't going to help us."

Lex crossed the room and pressed one palm flat against the wall. "He's been helping us and he doesn't even know it."

A section of the wall slid open, a yellow glow bleeding through into the rest of the room. Lex walked forward into the newly revealed area, and Alex followed, curious about what his plan was.

"Ever since Kara tasked me to build that new super-prison on Stryker's Island I've been working with Barry. The only reason the prison is completed is thanks to his super-speed efforts." Lex continued.

The new area opened up into a large room, utterly bare expect for a glass chamber in the centre. In the chamber crackled a bright yellow storm, electricity snatching at the glass and sprawling out in all directions. Alex knew what it was immediately.

"You've been siphoning off his speed force energy for this?" Alex asked.

"Not specifically for this, but just in case." Lex turned to her, still grinning. "We just need a device that we can reconfigure with speed force energy."

"A Mother Box."

"Precisely," Lex nodded. "And you know who has one…STAR Labs."

Alex grimaced. "In the most heavily fortified and well-defended armoury on the planet."

"That you're going to have to break in and out of," Lex pointed out. "You think you can do it?"

It was Alex's turn to grin. "Yes. But I have a better idea."