Chapter 7
"This will be the only time you can be here. We're expecting some in person government oversite and if she sees a civilian in here, I'll be out of job faster than you can blink," Alex told the raven haired woman. They had just stepped off the elevator and walked out into the main floor space of the DEO. The redhead hoped that the Luthor had believed that this was the FBI's building for training and deployment of tactical teams along with the main forensics center.
"I don't intend on making it a habit. I think the bomb was the work of the same people who broke into L Corp. They were inside the computer system and could have stolen the plans to the device we used to get rid of the Daxamites," Lena told her.
"We figured as much. What we don't know is how the Kryptonite managed to get on the dark web and how the guy we're chasing got it. Never mind how the guy knew what it could be used for," Alex led the woman over to the medical lab.
"Doctor Rodgers, Lena thinks she can help. Please share what you've found and keep me informed," Alex said to the medical man as he approached them.
"Yes of course. Do you have time for an update?" Rodgers asked.
"Quickly. Agent Dox has an update for me on the camera footage that surrounded the park and the news feeds. Our man with the storage facility is still playing hard to get, especially since we raided his place," the redhead said. Rodgers nodded and said,
"Supergirl's body has begun to heal but I have not been able to bring her out of unconsciousness. It is as if her body is shielding her the best way it knows how and that is by focusing on absorbing the yellow sun rays from the generators. We have no way of knowing how much gas she inhaled but the red sun generators did allow us to remove the shrapnel from the explosive device and once we did that, the yellow sun generators sealed her skin back up. I'm still worried about infections because internally the Kryptonite has been wreaking havoc. Her blood pressure just spiked, she's running a fever, and she's in a lot of pain." Alex cursed under her breath.
"It sounds like we need an internal yellow sun generator. Has anything like that been developed?" Lena asked.
"We've never had a need for it. We're hoping with the constant pumping in of oxygen, a little more pure than what we normally breathe in, will force the Kryptonite gas out as she exhales and allow for it to dissipate," Rodgers said.
"We probably don't have that kind of time. The longer it remains in her body, the more likely the damage will be almost permanent, unless we can somehow expose her insides to yellow sun," Lena told him.
"Figure it out. Do whatever it takes. This planet needs Supergirl, even if right now they don't see it that way," with that Alex left them, despite wanting to sit with her sister and hold her hand. She had a job to do and there were dangerous people on the loose.
"Maybe we don't have to have an internal yellow sun generator," Rodgers was having a thought.
"What are you thinking?" Lena asked.
"Well X-rays show us bone through skin, muscle, blood vessels, and tissue. What if we converted the X-ray machine into a yellow sun X-ray machine?" The doctor wondered.
"If we swap the X-ray generator with a yellow sun generator, inside the X-ray machine, that might work. But we'll need to crank the power supply in order to do so. You want the machine blasting the sun beams at the greatest strength to get into all of her cells. With the more concentrated the beams the deeper they will go into her body," Lena nodded.
"Let's get our X-ray Tech Agent Symmons and see what we can do," Rodgers quickly headed down the hallway toward the X-ray room and Lena followed.
"What have you got Brainy?" Alex wanted to know. He'd promised her interesting camera footage.
"Mercy Graves setting the backpack under a park bench. We ran the license plate of the van she got into and it turns out the van was stolen. I tracked her movements through traffic though and I have a location that she stopped at. A team is prepped and ready to go there now," he said.
"Good. Let's go," Alex told him.
To Be Continued…