A/N: A shout out to Jennifer Baratta! "Oh Lena" indeed. ;) Thanks!
Chapter 23
"I just spoke to Kara and they are rushing James into surgery. Alex is heading to the hospital and Supergirl is on her way back here," Brainy said as he entered the private laboratory floor from the elevator. As part of the DEO, security had let him into the elevator and opened the floor button he needed on the keypad with a special key.
"How bad is he?" Lena asked.
"Difficult to say. Kara isn't family so the doctors didn't say anything as they rushed him into surgery. NCPD has called James' sister and she's flying in as soon as she can," the twelfth level intellect reported.
"We just need to stay focused. You finish the serum and we'll have it as backup," Nia was trying to be optimistic. The scene that played before her earlier only showed Lena injecting James – not what happened afterwards.
"Right so you've been playing around with black Kryptonite. I'm not sure what Supergirl will think of that but we'll worry about that later," Brainy said. Just as he finished saying that, the doors to the elevator opened, revealing Supergirl behind them.
"Or we'll deal with it right now. Lena has been experimenting with the black Kryptonite…" Brainy started as he flipped through the files on the lab computer.
"And it would seem the stability is the issue. Human tissue doesn't last long with this serum," he concluded.
"It does explain, however, the second Supergirl," Kara gave Lena a look.
"Quite. It seems that when you used the Harun-El to defeat Reign, an unintended side effect was your Kasnian doppelganger," Brainy agreed, he had still not looked up from the screen and Kara wondered if he'd figured out what Lena had been missing.
"There is another Supergirl? How did Kasnia get their hands on her and why would she work for them?" The raven haired woman was confused.
"All good questions but for now it is safe to say that my doppelganger wants me dead. That's why we're trying to track down Eve," Kara explained.
"It seems I can't trust anyone these days," Lena shook her head.
"Eve is calculating and whomever she's hanging out with is just as calculating if not more. This has been well thought out and they are well connected. Brainy do you have anything?" Kara wanted to know.
"I believe I do. In order to make the serum work, we must separate the healing properties from the superpower properties. We must get to work immediately," he told them as he moved to the cooler and grabbed a vial of the serum. He handed it to Lena, who put the vial into the mass spectrometer.
"How long do you think it'll take?" Nia asked.
"Best guess is a couple of hours and then we need to test it," Brainy admitted.
"What if I could get you some help?" Kara asked.
"Who could help us?" He was slightly offended.
"My mother. She'd be able to help with our Teschmacher problem," Lena heaved a sigh.
"How would we get her out?" Nia was confused.
"I bought the prison which she's in. I can arrange for Supergirl to pick her up," the raven haired woman said.
"No offense but how could we trust her?" Brainy wanted to know as the mass spectrometer beeped.
"I think Dreamer could grab us a Truth-seeker from the DEO and that should help." Kara winked.
"I'll make the call," Lena said. Nia and Supergirl quickly headed to the elevator. Once the doors closed, Kara turned to the cub reporter.
"Call Alex and update her. You'll need her approval to take a Truth-seeker. If Ricky is on shift, he could grab a baby one and sneak it to you. I'm not sure if Colonel Haley is back from Washington," Kara admitted.
"You got it. You ok, handling Lillian?" Nia asked.
"If it'll help James, yes," the blonde nodded as the elevator doors opened and she headed toward the prison.
To Be Continued…