The only thing that came to mind as she watches her prowl the halls outside the lab is a graceful yet caged jungle cat in tactical gear. All that grace and coiled power waiting to be unleashed as soon as she was told the right direction to point it. The fact that Jamie's dog was obediently keeping to her side on every pass Alex makes on her way up and down the hall makes Kelly smile wider.

"Hey."

Nova lets out a small growl at her approach but Alex's hand ruffling the guard dog's fur seemed to sooth whatever annoyance the pup has.

"Thought you could use another distraction." Kelly holds up the container in her hand. Alex lets out the smallest of laughs at the slosh of red-colored Jell-O inside but not even that keeps her eyes from flickering from Kelly's face to Brainy's back while the 12th level intellect finishes narrowing down the possible locations Cadmus could be hiding. It had been almost an hour since they'd told her they'd found a thread of a lead surely they could find something else by now.

Maggie needed them.

"Alex." Kelly murmurs seeing the wheels turning in the refection of Alex's eyes. The agent's hand once again finds the comforting warmth of Nova's scruff when the pup rears up pawing at Alex's side as she like Kelly picks up on the unease radiating off the dazed government agent.

"I'll be find once we get going beautiful."

Kelly doesn't know who Alex is talking to her or the animal at her side, but at the moment she doesn't care very much seeing as having Nova around seems to be the only thing calming her girlfriend. Again, Nova takes a step between the two when Kelly moves to get her girlfriend's attention only this time the dog stays quiet. "She's really protective huh."

Alex smiles the one Kelly only thought was reserved for her sister now sisters as her eyes move to her silent bodyguard. "She knows I'm on edge and could use a friend." Nova gave a lopsided puppy smirk as Alex kneels ruffling her fur with an affectionate smile on her lips and earning a few swipes of Rory's tongue against her cheek in return.

"Well, now you have two." Kelly smiles pulling out a plastic spoon from her pocket along with another smaller container of Jell-O. "I thought Nova should get a treat too for being so helpful."

Alex's hand closes like a vice around Kelly's wrist as soon as Kelly starts to set the small container in front of the cute dog currently licking her lips in anticipation of her treat.

"It's sugar-free babe I promise. Dogs can have Jell-O as long as it's sugar-free." Kelly calms covering Alex's hand with her own. She even pulls an article up on her phone as proof when Alex didn't look interlay convinced.

Rory looked first at Kelly than to the container she puts in from of her and back again. After a few sniffs, Rory looks toward Alex as if asking permission.

"It's alright sweetie go ahead."

After another warry sniff, Rory digs in.

"Hey, Kels, I think she likes it." Alex laughs resting her head against Kelly's shoulder as they watch Rory pushing the container around in an attempt to clean every bit of jelly from it.

"What the hell is that even made of adamantium and mithril?" Jamie asks in awe as she reads over the specs while Lena's hand finds Linda's a second time in the last hour squeezing it once in reassurance. It was a little worrying that she hadn't been peppered with questions ever since she'd lead her friend away from what seemed to be a deep conversation with her mothers.

"It's more of a combination of fabricated graphene and led components to keep the kryptonite from…." Brainy starts to explain while Lena giggles watching Linda do another twirl like a princess in a new dress enjoying the swish of her new cape against her back.

Jamie scoffs at that already waving the tablet she'd stolen from Lena around. "This is a heck of a lot more than just…."

"Yes, Yes." Brainy cuts in his jaw flexing in agitation as his eyes hold Jamie's then move toward the pair now sitting in the hallway splitting a container of what Brainy guesses to be Jell-O between them.

The little boxes tactic wasn't helping the longer he witnesses his friend and commanding officer worry herself to a number of troubling hospital-level admission related conditions since learning of the detective's kidnapping. It was starting to become like his outburst after James was shot all over again. The regret the worry.

He hadn't exactly gotten to know Maggie Sawyer personally and it was true that the Alex and the detective had chosen to put an end their pending marriage yet seeing how Alex reacts to every new part of this unfolding mystery reminds him quite strongly of his own feelings toward Nia Nel and if Maggie was indeed Alex's Nia in any way however remote that feeling was then Brainy wasn't about to keep them separated longer than absolutely necessary.

They'd already lost so much time already just trying to find a way to begin the hunt for the kidnapped detective. "Really this model is just a lighter version of what was made for…." He starts to explain again but this time its Lena that cuts him off.

"We don't know how much Kryptonite whoever is holding Maggie has and with the original version of the L corp armor already being in use." Everyone accept Lena looked toward a newly arrived Kara as if needing the visional reminder of the armor in question before turning back to look at Lena "I thought Linda should be equally protected. So, she gets to have this model."

Linda gives a weak smile at the show of thoughtfulness but its Kara that speaks before she can. "You're sure that one is exactly like this one?"

Lena's jaw tightens at the underlaying unease at the question. It was bad enough Kara had kept her 'super' side a secret from her even after the two had become such close friends but now she also had the nerve to question Lena's own handy work at protecting her equally superpowered yet less of a secret-keeping twin? "Yes. I am more than sure that this suite will protect her just like your armor will Supergirl."

Linda winces at the harshness of how Lena talks with her sister and Kara herself seems more shaken then normal. At least now she seems to be feeling some of the sting her betrayal caused.

"What? I wanted Lin to have some armor of her own in case she wanted to go with you." Lena defends catching Alex's eyes in the mirror as Linda continued clinging onto her side.

"That's not…." Alex started to say looking between Kara and Linda as if she was just seeing them for the first time. Apparently, the sisters were also having some kind of silent communication going by Kara's shy and rather guilty smile at her older sister's raised eyebrow.

It's Jamie that breaks the uneasy quiet tapping against the door frame with her knuckles instead of actually knocking "Alright who's coming on operation 'Kick Cadmus in the neither's for taking our favorite detecting Munchkin?' come on war parties leaving. Wheels up in five."

Lena giggles at her enthusiasm. She'd been in the room when the two computer nerds had challenge one another to five games of rock paper scissors to determine who would ride shotgun giving direction and who would be back at the hub relaying those directions to the others laptop during the drive.

Brainy had offered to do it himself but the other two rather politely declined.

"Remind me later I have a lot more fangirling to do over meeting you." The impatient lab genius murmurs sending a blushing Kara a shy smile.

Lena fights down the bubbling feelings of jealousy she has at the banter. No, she wasn't jealous. It wasn't like she and Kara were on speaking terms anymore anyway. It wasn't for lack of trying on the blonde's part. She had been trying but Lena just couldn't face her yet. The hurt was too raw to deep.

Linda's hand shakily finds her own making Lena melt at the warmth of it against her skin. What surprises her is the lack of anything besides amusement in her eyes when Lena's eyes briefly meet Kara's while she drinks in the blossoming security she finds in resting her head against Linda's shoulder.

Apparently having Linda has a kind of superpowered shadow these last few days was chipping away at the walls Lena had built around her trust.

Then again Kara Danvers had always seemed to have such a calming, comforting effect on her from the first meeting.

"Try to get some more rest please." Linda whispers against her ear as if reading Lena's mind about needing a power nap.

"No promises." Lena shrugs picking up her now cold cup of coffee.

Linda's hand catches her own as Lena starts to bring the cold drink to her lips, but going by the crease of Kara's eyes out of the corner of her eye it was the 'original' super standing by the door she could thank when the cup seems to reheat itself it her hand.

Going by the surprise in her eyes Lena guesses Linda hadn't mastered that skill just yet. She whispers a stiff 'Thanks' just to be polite. Lena feels her eyes rolling at the puff of pride of Kara's chest at Linda's proud smile.

"Everyone ready?" J'onn cuts in resting a hand against Kara's shoulder as he peeks into the room.

Everyone going on the rescue mission nodes as one and heads toward the door. But not before Lena manages to tug Linda back for a few more seconds. Later she could wright it off as running on too much coffee and left-over feelings for her former best friend. It wasn't like she could just stop being attracted to Kara regardless of how the ray of walking sunshine treated her trust as well as her heart.

She knew it was wrong to project her feeling for one twin onto another, but she couldn't help it. A Kara twin was better than no version of Kara at all in her life. After all, Linda already knew about how she felt so at least they were on the same page.

"For good luck," Lena explains pressing the softest of kisses against the super's cheek then another even after one right on the blonde's lips. "Go get'em."

It was so cute watching Linda stumble out of the room after that. Almost like she'd forgotten how to walk.

What was a surprise was the pleased smile Kara flashed her way when Lena's eyes meet hers when she finally takes pity on her twin and offers a steadying hand before Linda could hurt anything more than a desk in her short trip to the door. Almost like she was happy that Lena had just openly showed her sister some level of romantic affection.

No Lena was just seeing things. It wouldn't be the first time.

How in all of the possible teams had she found herself on the one with Maggie's new girlfriend?

Irony maybe?

Why oh why couldn't she be with her sister. Then at least she could distract herself with teasing her about finally getting a kiss from the woman she'd been crushing on since getting to meet the great Lena Luthor.

"Hey." Alex's jaw flexed in annoyance at the tap against her shoulder pulling her out of her head. "Head in the game Danvers." Yet the agent could hear it in her voice that Kate's thoughts were also all over the place the longer they searched without finding anything remotely useful in helping them find Maggie.

"Alex."

Her sister's voice from the doorway makes both women jump a little. Even with protective armor, the super was turning into quite the stealth ninja.

Her faceplate was down this time around, but the hard line of her jaw had Kate and Alex sharing an uneasy glance between them.

"What's up Lin?" Kate greets before Alex can remember what words where let alone how to say them.

Linda wordlessly pivots around then adds a tight "It will be easier to show you." To get the other two to follow her.

The deeper they went into the maze of hallways the colder it became. By the time they'd apparently reached the cell in question they could see their breath on the air.

"These weren't on the original plans." Kate concluded as she slides passed Linda into the cell.

"It's a Cadmus facility. They don't exactly follow city codes." Alex growls fighting down the urge to either throw up her stomach or beat her fists red on the slime-covered walls as the chill threatened to drag her into her own kidnapped created phobias.

Kate's curse was enough to push passed the heart gripping fear and forces her feet to move cramming herself shoulder to shoulder into the cell beside the grim-faced other women. Linda having left them with a guilty "I will be back."

What she sees has Alex's stomach threatening to heave regardless of her training both as a doctor and a DEO agent. A little blood shouldn't faze her this much.

But it wasn't just any blood.

It was Maggie's blood. It was blood that should still be flowing in Maggie's body keeping her alive until Alex can find her and not smeared over the walls of a dirty cell that really was no bigger than a broom closet like a shakily drawn child's finger painting.

"Shitoky mushrooms its cold in here."

"Where is Superbarries?" Kate asks fighting down her own tears at the state of what had at one time been Maggie's holding cell.

"We thought she was with you?" Kara corrects doing her best to keep herself together as well while Alex hides quiet tears against her shoulder, but Kate shakes her head.

"An eagle and a bat."

Jamie had slid into the cell and was taking several pictures of the bloody walls instantly sending the images back to the waiting team back at the DEO. "What does it mean?" she wonders looking first to Alex then toward Kate as if they somehow would tell her the answer.

"Everyone back to the car." Linda orders over the coms as a foreboding earthquake-like trimmer shakes the building.

"Alex come on." Kate yells "Alex!." She bellows over the sounds of the building literally coming down around them when instead of keeping close to her heels and getting the heck out of dodge the agent chose to tun around and run full out toward the stairs leading back to the cells they'd just come from as if just remembering something.

"Danvers." Kate shouts when almost as soon as Jamie's dragged her out the door the building folds in on itself like a fiery house of cards.

All the Gotham pair could do was watch the building burn in front of their eyes with Jamie using all her strength to keep her much stronger boss from running back into the place herself.

Kara emerges after them and almost as soon as the pair touch down in a haze of speed and smoke they can see that Alex's right leg was broken thanks to her mad dash back into danger "I couldn't just….I couldn't leave it." The agent sobs in answer to the silent question in Kate and Jamie's eyes as she brings the ripped jacket to her face taking in the faint scent of Maggie's shampoo still clinging to the leather under the fresh scent of smoke and ash.

"Where is…." Kara pants out but Jamie stops her already pointing toward the figure of her twin half carrying half dragging something out of the flames and even from a distance the group could tell it that whoever Linda had found hidden away in the lower cells wasn't their detecting damsel in distress.