A/N: A shout out to Jennifer Baratta! Glad you thought it was interesting. Hope this one is just as interesting. ;)
Chapter 18
"So how do we catch Eve in the act?" Alex wondered as they talked on the flight. After the interrogation, the plane was restocked for the flight back and Mercy, along with her cohorts, were locked in a containment unit, and surrounded by DEO agents. J'onn flew back to National City on his own so that Colonel Haley couldn't cause trouble for anyone regarding his involvement.
"Well the news of the failed attempt on the President is probably out now which means that I highly doubt we'll find Eve at L Corp," Kara frowned.
"Oh I would agree but I had Brainy get a surveillance team to keep an eye on L Corp and another team to Eve's apartment. In the meantime, he was checking into the phone numbers that Mercy had. Hopefully he can get something out of them. Checking the flight manifests, he was able to match up three flights that carried our bad guys from National City to DC. Ricky is digging into the financial records to see if he can figure out how they paid for the tickets. Agent Spinelli is looking into what local contacts they could have had to get the bikes and weapons," her sister said.
"It's a start but now that Eve is underground, I'm not sure how we'll get her. We have no leads on what man she was talking to. If the guy is smart, those phone numbers go to burner phones," Kara told her. Alex nodded, knowing she was right.
"WAH! WAH! WAH!" The plane's alarms went off signaling that everyone needed to get in a seat and buckle up. Suddenly, the plane shook violently and anything that wasn't bolted down or buckled in, flopped around like a flounder inside the military plane.
"What the hell is going on?" The redhead asked as her sister saved her from falling out of her seat face first.
"I'll check it out," the blonde promised as she made sure that Alex was back in her seat and buckled in. She then quickly went to the cockpit and tried to talk to the pilots.
"Turbulence caused by something not weather related. Radar has what appears to be a human shaped object," the Captain said.
"That can't be good," Kara swallowed.
"Can't shake whoever it is," the First Officer said.
"Open the back hatch. I'll handle this," with that the blonde left the cockpit and the pilots did what they could to keep things steady as the person continued to buzz the plane. Kara reached the back hatch, which was slowly opening. It was large enough to move vehicles into the plane so on her way out the door, Kara hit the close button, not wanting everyone inside to be exposed to the wind that would come in or make the plane more unsteady.
Supergirl got away from the plane and headed toward the person who was flying around. They must have known she was on them as they broke away from their original course. At first Kara thought it was a person in some sort of special suit. They were wearing a helmet but then she realized that the person was wearing a cape. Deciding she'd better introduce herself, Kara shot her heat vision out to let them know they were not alone. The person whirled around midflight and Kara stopped in her tracks.
The person was the same size as her. Her suit was dark grey and navy, the cape was maroon, and there was a hammer. Immediately this was what "drozd-ryabinnik" was. Somehow, someway, this was Eve's project. There were a lot of questions but they would have to wait as the person removed her helmet, throwing it away, and if Kara could have had a heart attack, she would have.
"Surprised to see me?" This carbon copy asked.
To Be Continued…