Chapter 11)
Alex finally got some semblance of sanity in her mind, which really was something given how much she ravished several different women. Sara and Kara joined her on either side.
"So, do we have any idea why we were taken to this strange world?" Sara asked. "Or where this strange world is?"
"Neither, just yet," Alex said. "I've figured out how our pheromones have been thrown out of whack. Even more so than usual."
Kara wisely shut her mouth, and Alex decided to conclude.
"Some kind of modified planet pollen, combined with pieces of Pink Kryptonite, maybe with some Red, although I need an air sample. And hopefully we can draw it from the air. Someone's genetically altered the plant to release pheremones and they are enhanced. Whether or not we're the targets, I don't know, or maybe it's a welcome."
"Kryptonite should only affect Kara, right?" Sara asked.
"Not if it's been genetically modified, and strange things have happened," Kara said. "There was a man who messed with Kryptonite back during my cousin's early days as Superman. He tried to replace one of the unknown elements with tobacco?"
"You serious?" Sara asked.
Kara nodded and threw her head back. This was a story she heard third hand, as Lois told her and Clark mentioned it to Lois. Happened years ago, before Kara had come out of the box.
"Yeah, split him in half, into his human half and his Kryptonian half, but his Kryptonian half turned evil and power mad," Kara said. "Thankfully, they were put together, but bad times."
"Don't try and mess with Kryptonite," Alex said. "Our communication grid is up and running and Lena and Gwen are working on shields now we know what's in the air. So we'll find out more.."
"We need more power to signal the Waverider," Sara said. "Of course, I don't know where it is, or rather when. Or the rest of my team. Or you know, where I am."
Sara threw her head back and sighed. Kara lightly massaged her shoulders and Sara tried not to get something started, as much as she wanted to lay down with Kara, and just work all frustrations out until Sara is raw.
"We might not be the only ones here," Sara said.
"Yeah, Kalibak, that's not good," Kara said. "Even after Dear Daddy Darkseid got sent into oblivion, there's still some rotten eggs. Him, Granny Goodness, Glorious Godfrey, hope Kalibak's the last we see from the people from Apokolips."
They had been mostly secure in the lab and just waiting for the crystals Gwen, Lena, and Alura salvaged to power up.
"Was that an Earthquake?" Alex asked.
"Those have been happening on and off," Sara responded with a shrug.
A large jagged rock erupted from the ground. A dark haired woman of mixed race dressed in a skin tight body suit dodged a huge wrecking ball swung about by a dark skinned man who intended to cave her skull in. If the woman let him, and she would not.
"Hey, get over here!"
Thunderball of the Wrecking Crew, as he was called, had been joined by his fellow Crew members, Bulldozer, Piledriver, and Wrecker. And they dodged the flying rocks created by the woman before she leaned in and sent a wave of energy knocking them off of their feet.
Something in the air made the woman fuzzy and impulsive. Daisy Johnson, better known as Quake, worked as an Agent of SHIELD for quite some time. Daisy did not know how she got here, in this strange crew, fighting a quartet of Asgardian villains, and just barely holding her own. These guys had gone head to head with Hulk and Thor.
This better not be another wacked out Framework situation, or something along those lines. Daisy whipped her hand in and cracked the ribs of one of the goons, toppling him tot he ground. Piledriver, she thought.
A swing from the crowbar came inches away from hitting Daisy. She used her speed to get on the rock.
A blur of light shot out of nowhere and cracked Wrecker across the back of the head. Thunderball, Piledriver, and Bulldozer all faced a mysterious blur.
"Flash?" an uncertain Daisy asked.
The speedster slowed down, and Daisy saw she was not the Flash, although not the woman she knew. Daisy raised her hand. The dark skinned woman, dressed in a blue and grey uniform which fit her body quite nicely, Daisy noticed look in her.
"Oh, my, you're Daisy Johnson!" the speedster squealed. "Quake, one of the Earth's greatest protectors. You're my hero, well one of them anyway."
Okay, not dealing with an enemy. More like a fangirl. Of course, Daisy did not let her guard down.
"Okay," Daisy said. "Um, who are you?"
"Oh, you can call me, XS," she replied. "I was backing up my friend take down a meta-human when something happened. It felt like I was nowhere, and then I was here, and I'm no longer in Central City. There's this strange vortex and poof, I'm gone. Can't hear anyone, not my friend and not...not my parents."
XS threw her head back. For a second, the speedster felt she had been blinked out of reality and back into reality.
"We're not on Earth anymore," XS said. "And I just gave those weird Bee Keeper guys the slip."
Weird bee keeper guys, Daisy just groaned. It would have to be only one group, AIM. Daisy thought things had gone from bad to worse. Daisy took out a device which she had been working on.
"Those settings need to be tweaked slightly to pick up any signals," XS said. "You need to cross those two wires, here like that."
"Right, thanks," Daisy said. "And now, I've got a ping."
Whether or not it's a good ping, or a bad ping, Quake and XS would found out. The speedster ran ahead to scout the area and Daisy barely had an opportunity to shout after before she returned back. The sounds of gunfire in the background caused the hairs on Daisy's neck to stand up.
More trouble, which seemed to be the story of her time on this strange world, wherever it was.
A small group of soldiers stampeded towards Quake and XS, but surprisingly, they appeared to be not going for them. Rather they turned to a group of people dressed in yellow bee keeper suits.
"Those are the same guys that came after me earlier," XS whispered.
"Stand aside, this world belongs to AIM!"
"All will bow before the might of HYDRA!"
Already, these two super powerful criminal organizations tried to take control of the world and were shooting at each other over some kind of insane alien weapon. The two groups blasted at each other, weapons firing off of each other.
"Criminal groups and their Alphabet soup," Daisy grumbled.
"Well, at least HIVE isn't involved. Or Kobra."
Yes, thankfully, for small favors, or any ot the other groups. One of the AIM scientists propelled a metal grenade which released a sonic blast of energy into the air and disrupted AIM's weapons.
"Quake!"
Oh, one of the HYDRA goons recognized her. Daisy quickly quaked one of her enemies backwards. A net shot from the side, with XS repelling it and knocking it back down to her.
These guys, true to form, cut one head off and two more grow in their place. And these HYDRA goons were upgraded with brand new weapons which they fired upon the two heroines which sent them crashing down to the ground.
"Release the net."
Daisy saw three drones hover in the air. XS rushed towards them and tried to send a lightning bolt at them. Daisy realized perhaps three seconds too late this was not going to be a good idea at all.
"WAIT!"
The drones repelled the power back and sent XS and Quake down onto their back. Every inch of their bodies burned in agony as they twitched in power. The HYDRA goons dropped down as the AIM scientists approached them.
"No, no!"
Daisy wiggled her arms to quake the ground. No good, not at all. She flopped up and down on the ground like a fish being cast out of water. And both sides turned around them.
All they could hope for was a miracle. XS responded with an apologetic gaze, her impulsive behavior getting both women captured. Daisy could not blame her completely, because Daisy made more than her fair share of blunders.
The lab offered more than a few spare parts, and Lena Luthor pieced them together. She managed to get the security up and running, and shielding the air. She was still taking air samples and trying to get down the source of the mysterious plant.
There was some chatter which indicated at least two different groups. Just brief conversations which happened for a moment and disappeared for several hours. Lena jotted down notes from what she heard and these two groups were after the same object, whatever it was. And it must have been powerful.
People tended to adapt to the world around them quite well. And Lena wanted to find her own way adapt. She actually used one of Lex's own designs and improved on it piecing together out of spare parts. Lena tested the arm cannon by blasting a chair out of the way.
The burning chair needed to be put out. Okay, that might be a bit too intense, although Lena figured she needed a weapon that packed a punch.
"How are you coming along?"
Gwen stepped into the room and Lena just smiled as she finished carefully putting in the power source. One wrong move could set Lena's project back, providing she did not blow up the lab or a hole through the wall.
"The shields are working just well," Gwen said.
"If Stark can make something functional out of a box of scraps, I can work on something functional here," Lena said. "Are Kara and Alex..."
"They're picking up the source of the signal that we picked up, Caitlin's tagging along," Gwen said. "Sara's working on a way to try and locate her ship, but it's slow going. After all, she's not just looking for a location, but rather a time period."
Lena bit down on her lip. Worried slightly about Kara, given her lack of powers. Lena was trying to create a solar filter to turn the red sunlight into yellow, but Lena could not get it to work properly. While Lena remained confident.
"Give me a hand with the chest plate," Lena said.
"Right," Gwen said. "What do you want me to do?"
XS closed her eyes and struggled to break free. Her nerve endings screamed in agony, as it felt like XS entered a never ending run.
"And now you will….."
An icicle cracked one of the AIM goons in the side of the shoulder and dropped him down to the ground. This distraction allowed Daisy to pull her hand up just in time to quake the man in the side of the arm, breaking said arm and causing him to drop the back.
"Caitlin?"
XS's surprised and quite relieved statement had been stopped by another figure dressed in black approaching. The AIM guards stopped and stared in the face of the woman, as if shocked.
"What are…."
Alex slammed them down to the ground before they say anything.
"You are an imposter!" one of the AIM scientists screamed.
XS nailed the man in the arm and gun flew into his hand. Supergirl caught the gun in her hand and fired knocking the men down. XS ran from goon to goon, sending the guns flying and stopping them from retreating.
"They're after this!" Daisy yelled.
"Get it to the lab, right there across the way," Caitlin said. "Lena will let you in."
XS did not answer too many questions and she sped the box. Inside, there was some kind of power cell. If both AIM and HYDRA fought over it it must be valuable.
The goons scrambled back into the shadows like the cockroaches they were. Daisy's eyes turned and she got a good look.
"Alex?"
"Long time no see," Alex said with a smile. "Still getting into trouble?"
"Hey, after Tibet, you really should be the one talking about getting people into trouble," Daisy said.
"What happened in Tibet?" Kara asked.
They took one of the platforms the AIM scientists left behind which allowed them on their way to the back of the lab. Alex punched her hand into the security system.
"It's a long story," Alex said. "Very sticky night."
Daisy stuffed a fist into her mouth to stifle a nervous grin. Kara looked from the two women. She somehow knew something went on between them since their college days.
"Isn't that all of your nights?" Kara asked.
Alex just snorted and Caitlin dropped down. XS dropped her hood and looked in awe around them.
"Nora West-Allen, daughter from the fury of Barry Allen and Iris West-Allen," Caitlin said. "This is…."
"I know, I know, this is so schway!" Nora said, practically geeking out. "I mean, Supergirl here in the flesh and she's just as hot now as she ever was."
"Thanks," Kara said with a good natured smile.
"Glad to see you made it out, okay, Nora," Caitlin said.
"Did...do you know here Mom and Dad are?" Nora asked.
"No, sorry, and since you don't know either, guess we're back to square one," Caitlin said. "You haven't breathed in anything, have you?"
"Just these weird plant spores, but I didn't...feel a thing," Nora said. "Oh, why do I feel so fuzzy right now?"
"We better get you inside," Caitlin said. "And after you're taken care of,"
Caitlin lead Nora inside and Kara recognized the glint into the speedster's eyes, although it took a while to affect her due to her high healing factor. Obviously, the modified Pink/Red Kryptonite plant spores still had an effect on speedsters, although they were a bit quicker.
"You didn't breath in anything either, did you?" Alex asked.
"I don't think so, but you better take me in to get checked out," Daisy said.
Alex smiled, fair enough. After she left Daisy hanging last time, they had a lot of catchings to do. The two moved inside, which left Kara to take the power cell into the lab, and help Lena, Gwen, and Alura in taking a look at it.
Things just had gotten a bit stranger and many things struck Kara as odd. Very odd indeed.
The Shameless Smut Commences In the Next Chapter.
