Chapter 29
"I don't like that look on your face," Kara said as Brainy, who was now scrubbed and all clean and in a hazmat suit. He was poking on a tablet and trying to understand what was going on.
"I've alerted the Director. She's on her way down with J'onn," Riley explained.
"Sweet Rao. Can't anything go right?" It was a rare outburst from the blonde, but the truth was, she was exhausted. She really didn't want to have her sister under any more stress.
"I think the nuclear explosion must have caused a reaction I was not expecting," Brainy finally spoke.
"You? Brainy? That doesn't really give me a warm fuzzy," Kara gave him a look.
"How are you feeling?" Nia asked. She too was now clean and in a hazmat suit.
"I'm tired which I think we all know is harder to achieve than it sounds," the blonde said.
"Those patches should have almost cured you," Nia frowned.
"Should have been enough to get me through to the medical lab at the very least but I feel like I was run over by a truck," Kara admitted.
"The nuclear explosion has caused the nanites to feed off of you. They are supposed to help you deflect outside forces but the energy from the blast seems to have completely switched how they react. I honestly didn't think you were that close to the explosion but perhaps it was the combination of everything that is causing this," Brainy said.
"English please," Nia said.
"Being already weak and determining that she needed them to help her breathe, the nanites reacted as they were designed. The explosion, and the energy wave that followed, however, twisted them. They won't respond to commands and are sapping you instead of protecting you," he explained.
"So how do we get them off?" Kara wanted to know.
"We need to overload them. If they are overloaded, they should just fall off," Brainy said.
"So, I'd be in my birthday suit… in the middle of the DEO…" Kara raised an eyebrow.
"Brainy, please tell me there is a way to do this in private," Nia gave him a look.
"Try the shower first. The water might be enough to push them over the edge. Even if it doesn't, you'll at least have the radiation off of you," he told them. Kara headed back inside the shower and cranked the water up.
"Tell me what is going on, right now," it was easy to tell, even through her hazmat suit, who it was.
"Director, the nanites seem to have turned against Supergirl. We're attempting to overload them," Brainy explained. Alex's left hand went to her forehead and rubbed; her suit making a plastic being crinkled noise.
"The explosion?" J'onn asked.
"It would seem so. We're going to need yellow sun generators to help her regain the strength that was sapped from her by the nanites," the twelfth level intellect let them know.
"Brainy, this isn't working. If anything, my skin feels like it's on fire," Kara called out.
"Have Lena prep the yellow sun X-ray machine. Inside and out should force the nanites off," Brainy said.
"What did I say about birthday suits and the middle of the DEO?" Kara reminded him as they heard the water shut off. It hadn't been long enough to clean off the radiation and J'onn was about to say something when she walked out of the shower, her skin, red and raw.
"Clear a path to the machine," he barked.
To Be Continued…