Chapter 63:
A small power outage in the lab brought Shuri inside. The containment unit had been shattered and Overgirl had been missing. Alex, Kara, and Karen slipped into the lab behind her.
"She's gone?" Kara asked.
"I'm afraid so," Alex said. "We knew she was crafty. And all it took was a small break in the security for her to escape."
Shuri punched up the security feed. It looks a little grainy in the process. They got the gist of what happened. Overgirl's escape as she smashed through the barrier the moment the power went on. She smashed through the wall and flew up into the sky.
"She got out of here in a hurry," Karen said. "What is she after?"
"Revenge," Alex said. "She acted exactly as I thought she would, if she had been let out. She's going right to Alexandra, and right to AIM. She wants to take them out."
Kara could see the intensity in her sister's eyes. Alex had a bit of a bone to pick with her alternate dimension counterpart after she took a piece of the symbiote away from Alex. That was not something she could get away with for very long. Kara put her hand on Alex's shoulder and steered her away.
"Sorry, just thinking about how she...she just ripped it away from me," Alex said. "I wonder what she's doing with it. Well, we'll be able to figure out where she is, because Overgirl will lead us to her."
"You slipped a tracker on her?" Karen asked. "On the off chance she would break free?"
Alex smiled. Karen just whistled in response. Alex could give Helena's father some lessons. In the meantime, Alex moved to the door. Kara and Karen exchanged a look.
"I will make sure she hasn't done any damage."
Shuri's statement faded off in the wind. A preliminary inventory of the palace indicated Overgirl did not do any more damage than needed to be done in her escape. However, Shuri needed to be for certain and one of the best ways possible to do so was to sweep the palace with a fine tooth comb.
Wide eyes followed Alexandra as she released the symbiote from the containment feet. The white symbiote hissed and stretched up Alexandra's arm for a brief second. Whitney Frost, now full time with AIM upon Killmonger being indisposed, eyed Alexandra nervously.
"I'm not certain it's a good idea to put that on right now," Whitney said. "There's still so much we don't know about the symbiote."
"I know what I'm doing," Alexandra said.
Famous last words, Whitney mused. A woman like this could only be advised and not reasoned with. Alexandra Danvers lost all sense of the plot and allowed the symbiote to move into it. It turned into color swapped version of the her suit. White where there was black and black where there was right.
"How are you feeling?" Whitney asked.
"I feel….I feel the power!" Alexandra yelled. "Yes, we are one. We are going to take over this world. I have the power to stand up and face the Beyonder."
All of the AIM Scientists watched giddly as this scientific breakthrough spread over their Scientist Supreme. Every inch of her body, covered with the suit. Alexandra whipped out the tendrils from the suit and shifted them into modified blunt force objects which smashed two tables.
"Perfect!"
For too long, Alexandra played second best so her so called ideal adoptive sister. But, Alexandra would own this day. She would own this world and return to her own world to cause everyone to bend at the knee. Her eyes shifted in power and she roared in triumph.
The glass above the shattered and Whitney had been unfortunate enough to be taken down by a flick of the finger of the figure who dropped down.
"It's her!" one of the AIM Scientists yelled.
The man fired a gun which released a pulse of red solar energy through the air. Overgirl dodged the energy which would bring her back down to Earth and smashed the scientist down to the ground. Another one tried to blast her with a shock stick. Overgirl ripped the object out of his hand and smashed the scientist down to the ground. His knees crumpled out from underneath him.
The soldiers fired and Overgirl made quick work of them. They all dropped down to the ground. Bleeding, bruised, and battered, Overgirl turned her full attention to Alexandra.
Alexandra slammed Overgirl into the wall hard and viciously as possible. The tentacles on the suit whipped back and helped Overgirl in place.
"You don't understand the power I now wield!" Alexandra yelled. "I can feel it. I can feel your energy. Your life essence. It's mine. I have power beyond my wildest dreams."
Overgirl's heat vision fired and knocked Alexandra from her for a brief moment. She could only about two feet before she collapsed down to the ground. Alexandra pulled Overgirl off of the ground and slammed her into a nearby wall.
"You will finally bend at the knee to me, your better, dear sister."
Overgirl coughed, but refused to yield. She was the best, superior to all of the rest. Overgirl would not bow before Alexandra.
"We have a breach!" one of the guards yelled on the outside. "I repeat we have a b...mmmph!"
Alex yanked the guard into the shadows and put his lights out with a vicious punch to the side of the head. The ground rumbled from beneath them.
"Supergirl, Power Girl, you're up!"
The rumbling machine came up from the ground and fired missiles at the two girls. This looked to be pieced together by some technology and very well by the looks of things. Kara veered to one side and Karen veered to the other to redirect the missiles in the direction of a flying drone.
Kara picked up the drone and hurled it like a disc through the air. The drone connected to the side of the machine and damaged the side.
Power Girl drove down and smashed her fist through the machine and ripped the circuits out completely. Fried completely, Power Girl tore the machine apart and caused it to flip over onto its back. She pulled back and waited for another one to come out of the angle.
Several modified robots appeared. Alex recalled Gwen had problems with these. Spider Slayers they were called, built by a man named Smythe. Alex slashed into the robots and damaged them. One of the robots turned around and sent a blast of green energy at Kara.
"Equipped with Kryptonite," Kara breathed.
Karen smashed down the slayer before it gave them any further problems. The slayer flipped over onto its back, it's legs twitching like mad.
"The way inside is clear," Kara yelled.
The sounds of a fight and the anguished screams made them realize something really bad happened inside. Kara, Karen, and Alex moved quickly inside before they encountered any title.
"Without your powers, you're nothing."
The agony pumped through Overgirl as Alexandra forced her onto the ground. She slammed Overgirl hard into the wall and Overgirl slumped over. She breathed heavily.
"Take off the suit, and we'll see who will win this fight," Overgirl spat. "You are pathetic. To think, you trained your entire life, and you weren't good enough to beat me without an alien suit you stole and bastardized."
Alex jumped from the ceiling and knocked Alexandra back to the ground and away from Overgirl. Overgirl allowed herself room to breath and watch the battle.
"You brought the rest of the suit here for me," Alexandra said. "Perfect. So I can tear it off!"
"Bring it on!"
Alexandra and Alex shot tendrils out at the same time. They wrapped each other and Alex recoiled in pain. Alexandra's suit tried to eat away at Alex's own and absorbed it. Alex used a concealed gun to blast Alexandra way and she stumbled away. Alex dodged the blades from the suit before they smashed into her.
"Let's face it!" Alexandra yelled. "You don't have it any more."
Security drones rose up from the lab to engage Supergirl and Power Girl. Kara grimaced when she faced them.
"I'm really sick of drones!" Kara yelled.
"Just now?"
Power Girl knocked over three of them in the same hit. Her eyes flickered across the lab, for anything she could use to perhaps subdue Alexandra.
Alex jumped high into the air. Alexandra smashed her way through all of the perch points and made sure Alex did not have the higher ground.
Venom dropped to the ground and Anti-Venom rose up. The daggers stabbed into the suit.
"We can tell from this suit's memories that Carnage did a number on your recently," Alexandra said. "We will finish the job nicely."
"We won't let you win!"
Alex broke free. Splotches appeared on the suit from where Alexandra grabbed her and Alexandra could feel each pain stabbing. She took down one of the downed drones and hurled it at Alexandra. Alexandra sliced it apart with ease and slammed her down.
"Come out. I'll take you and these two Kryptonians. I will be the most powerful being on this world!"
"Still pathetic!" Overgirl spat.
This directed Alexandra's attention to Overgirl just long enough for Alex to pick up a grenade and throw it at Alexandra. It exploded and sent Alexandra backwards in a burst of fire. The flames absorbed into the suit and shot fireballs at Alex.
"Great, not one of my better ideas!"
Power Girl studied the containment unit which the symbiote had been put in. Supergirl engaged the security drones above her and smashed them expertly down to the ground.
"I've got an idea," Power Girl said. "Keep those drones off of my ass."
"Gladly!" Supergirl yelled.
Supergirl took a deep breath and super breathed the drones out into the window. They all smashed one at a time and sent explosions to the lab.
Suddenly, something wrapped around Supergirl from behind. The Anti-Venom symbiote strangled her from behind and dropped Kara down to one knee. A crazed gaze danced over the eyes of Anti-Venom as she strangled Kara down to the ground.
"Give it up, give your symbiote to me, and I won't absorb your sister's life force," Alexandra said.
"Alex, don't, she'll just kill us both."
Alex paused, given the sadistic choice. She had no choice. She had no option, but at the same time, Kara was right. Alexandra would kill them both.
"How about a third choice?"
Karen knocked Alexandra away from Karen and threw her into the containment unit. The sonic pulse from the containment unit separated Alexandra from the suit.
"No, no, no!"
Alexandra's cries of anguish at being separated from the suit echoed through the room. Alex yanked her out of the containment unit and sent her into a cell across the room. Alexandra dropped down to the ground.
The suit released the life force it stole which empowered Overgirl. Overgirl moved into position and Supergirl tackled her down onto the ground. The two stumbled before Supergirl knocked out Overgirl and knocked her into the cell as well.
The Anti-Venom symbiote, now put on ice, remained stored safely in the lab. An unconscious Whitney Frost slept off her concussion.
"We put them in the same cell," Karen said. "When they wake up, what's going to stop them from killing each other?"
"This."
Alex pulled a vial out of her suit. It contained a pink dust which Kara and Karen recognized as Poison Ivy's creation. The cell appeared to have some kind of filtration system inside which could allow chemicals.
"We are in the same situation," Alex said. "We're going to work together."
The two Earth-X women woke up and glared at her and then each other.
"We're going to need all hands on deck and AIM and HYDRA together, we might have a chance," Alex said.
"If you think I'm working with her, you're mentally unwell," Overgirl said.
"Yeah, and I will kill you."
"No, you won't."
Alex pumped Ivy's pheromones into the chamber to infect both Alexandra and Overgirl. This would get them more compliant and will hopefully make them find common ground.
"Wow, Alex...I know the situation is bad, but...do you think we just crossed some kind of line?" Kara asked.
Maybe, Alex figured, but desperate times called for desperate measures. She leaned back and waited to see if their scientific experiment would work or not.
The Shameless Smut Resumes In the Next Chapter.