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Chapter 33
"What's going on with her Doctor?" Kara asked as the medical man took Nia's vitals. The Kryptonian had brought the human-Naltorian hybrid into the medical lab just a few moments ago and laid her down on the first available bed. Brainy had seen them come in and wanted to be there but he remained at his post, digging through the information he'd just found.
"She's got a nice goose egg on the back of her head. My guess is that our bad guy surprised her," Rodgers frowned. Nia's vitals were perfectly normal.
"But would that leave her unconscious for this long?" The blonde was concerned.
"No, it would not. I need to run a scan and make sure there isn't anything physical going on. If she was hit in the head, would that engage…" the man did not even get the words out as Nia suddenly sat bolt upright, completely wide awake.
"Nia!" Kara was completely surprised.
"How did I…" her friend was obviously confused.
"First, how are you feeling?" Doctor Rodgers asked.
"I have a rather nasty headache," Nia admitted.
"We think one of Lex's goons hit you on the back of the head with the butt of his gun," the blonde explained while the good Doctor went looking for an ice pack and some pain medicine.
"That would do it. I had just turned the power back on and was about to leave the room but then… I had a very weird dream," Nia told them.
"So the smack to the back of the head caused your dreaming ability to kick in?" Kara was surprised.
"I think the smack triggered something. The dream had me waking up in a strange room. Lex was there, he had me strapped to some sort of weird machine. How I got there or what it was for, I'm not entirely sure. You, J'onn, and Batwoman were fighting more Lexosuits while M'gann had Lillian cornered. The weird part was that Andrea didn't seem to be there. Brainy wasn't there either but I guess I figured that we left him behind so he didn't overdo it," she explained.
"Do you think you could describe everything to Brainy? He might be able to understand what Lex is up to and why he wanted whatever Andrea stole," her friend asked.
"First, pain medicine and the ice pack," Doctor Rodgers interrupted. He handed Nia a glass of water and some pills. She gratefully took them and quickly downed the pills with some of the water. Then they swapped the glass of water for the ice pack.
"That feels much better," Nia smiled, the ice was certainly helpful until the pain medication could kick in.
"Good. Now take it easy for at least the next thirty minutes while the medicine kicks in. If you don't start to feel better, you need to let me know," he told her.
"Will do," Nia promised. Kara helped her friend out of the bed and they headed back into the main room. There Kate, J'onn, and M'gann were waiting for them near the main computer hub.
"You ok?" Kate asked Nia.
"I'll be fine. Did Brainy find something?" She wanted to know.
"I did. The remote controlled Lexosuits have GPS chips. That way they can be tracked and their course corrected if need be. The last place this suit was before landing here at our DEO station was just outside of Metropolis," Brainy explained, now that the group was back together.
"That would make sense. It would put him near Kal," Kara frowned.
"Well it explains another thing – this was not on Lena's list because it is not listed on any of Lex's or Lillian's holdings. It's listed under Jeremiah Danvers…" Brainy didn't know how that would go over. Kara was just glad that Alex wasn't there to hear that.
"Of course it is. He must have been brainwashed here too," the blonde heaved a sigh.
"I figured as much. Supposedly it's an empty piece of property that is about ten acres but obviously a Lexosuit wouldn't come from nothing. It has to have a recharging station and storage spot," Brainy told them.
"Well then I guess we better pay this spot a visit," J'onn said.
"We have no schematics and no idea what kind of buzz saw we could be walking into," Brainy said.
"We have a long trip across the country ahead of us. There wouldn't happen to be any DEO aircraft available for us would there?" J'onn wondered. Kate and Nia couldn't fly and besides they would need to bring Lillian and Lex back to National City when they were done.
"I phoned in a favor," Brainy smiled.
"You guys need a ride?" Lena asked from behind them, making them all turn around.
To Be Continued…