Chapter 7:
Faster than a speeding bullet, Supergirl blasts through the air. She has numerous questions in her mind, and also more conern hits her hard. She hopes Gwen is able to help her. Given that Barbara gave her recommendation, and Kara trusts Barbara, she really thinks that there will be no problem at all.
A loud thump echoes from off to the side. For a brief second, Kara thinks that it's the usual problem, perhaps someone car jacking something, robbing a bank, or trying to pull off something which demands her attention. Kara does an about face, and turns around to go against something.
Three large drones blast in the air. They start circling around her in the air. Kara positions herself for the battle. A missile shoots through the air. Kara whip forward and punches one of the miniature missiles out of mid air. There's a small explosion which echoes.
Kara blasts another drone with the heat vision.
Three more come out from behind her. The Girl of Steel springs back and bounces up from the drones. Her blood boils at these things coming at her. Kara swings back and smashes one of them.
"I'm sick of this!"
One of them shoots a beam of light at her and another fires an electrified cable. Kara catches the cable and snaps back to kick the drone down. She whips the drone back into one of the buildings.
"Get out of the way!"
Kara's hot blooded-temper hits another level. She pulls the slack jawed civilians off of the ground and puts them out of the way. The minute she sets them down, the drones give chase. Kara snaps her hand back and hits it with a punch.
Glass and metal shatter from her fist smashing into the drone. She pulls back with the drone circling around her. Two beams of light fire. Kara dodges the beams only to find they come back around her. She spins around and nails one of the drops. The drone drops down to the ground.
Kara flips into the air and the final drone chases her. It retracts with a pair of wings. A beam blasts at her and three spheres shoot at her. Kara avoids the spheres and hits one of them hard. She bounces the spheres back with two more punches. The spheres vanish and then come back from underneath her.
They shoot Kara up into the air from the hypergravity. She flips into the air and comes down onto the top of the drone. The drone heats up and knocks Kara backwards. She flies back and bounces off of the wall of the building. The gargoyle she stands on gets shot.
Kara swoops down from underneath and catches the falling gargoyle. Her heart beats a little bit faster.
'Go to the left, and then up, get that away from the city.'
A net wraps Kara up. A glowing green jagged crystal comes out of the drone at her. Kara rips herself free from the last minute and pivots before smashing into the drone. The drone flies to the ground. Kara smashes the drone repeatedly until it sputters to a stop.
The Girl of Steel drops down onto her knees and takes in a deep breath. She notices something in the side of the drone. Some kind of power source or something. Kara pries open the side of it and rips it out.
Kryptonite, only red instead of green. Why would anyone use any kind of Kryptonite as a power source? Kara's anger clutches the red stone into her hand and digs it inside.
"Are you okay, Supergirl?"
"Yeah! Fine! Thanks!"
Kara's statement is clipped. People look at her. One of the drones starts hovering up off of the ground, until Kara curb stomps it into the ground. She gives them an angry expression. They all scatter back, all muttering among themselves. Supergirl's having a bad day and none of them want to be around.
She notices a piece of the drone with a company logo on it. Kara studies it with furious intent in her eye.
"OsCorp. Imagine that."
Given all of the shady things OsCorp had been involved with, Kara's really not too happy about them having Supergirl seeking drones.
She hovers above the ground. A second later, one of the humans snaps a picture at her, with the drone clutching at her hand. She thinks about swooping down and grabbing the camera phone before hurling it.
'Not worth it.'
Kara continues her trip to OsCorp, the red Kryptonite and drone piece clutching in her hand. The Girl of Steel's hair hits her face the faster she flies.
Perhaps it's not the best attitude to have in public, but why should she act different than anyone else? Why should she become some emotionlessly drone? She's sick of that attitude on Krypton and now she's extremely sick of that attitude on Earth.
The sound of a phone ringing is something that Kara ignores.
"Cat."
She shakes her head.
"She can wait. Time for her to learn she's not the center of the universe. Maybe she'll treat me with respect."
Gwen positions herself in front of the lab table. She's trying to get to the bottom of what's happening to Lucy. Alex is a lot easier to figure out. The suit's bonded with her and it's a deep bond. They're in harmony and obviously removing the suit would be deadly for both Alex and the suit. They have come to the understanding.
The spores Lucy ingested in the meteor are another thing entirely. Gwen bites down on her lip and carefully looks over everything. She taps a finger on the table and things about it.
'Maybe Lucy's going to give birth to a symbiote.'
That particularly seedy thought makes Gwen shake her head. She decides to get down to business. If she had to guess, the spores altered Lucy's DNA somewhat. She has strength, speed, agility, and enhanced durability and reflexes. Combined with the military training she already had, that would see how competent Lucy is.
She could do some real good in the world. The only thing Gwen's worried is how the military would exploit it. Then again, she's afraid about how her company will exploit her powers should they learn.
A rush of air from outside of the building causes Gwen's neck to snap back. She notices someone force the window to the lab open. She reaches over to trigger the alarm, only to find out that it's Supergirl.
The look in Supergirl's eyes causes Gwen's arm to stiffen, but she relaxes a little bit.
"Supergirl?"
"We need to talk."
"About what?"
"About this!"
Supergirl hurls the crumpled up piece of drone at Gwen's feet.
"What?"
"What does it look like?"
Gwen senses some hostility coming from her voice. However, if she was attacked by drones, Gwen understands the hostility, even though she wishes Supergirl can take the angry tone out of her voice.
"It looks like OsCorp's security drones."
"These security drones attacked me. And they were powered by this."
Supergirl wiggles the piece of red rock in front of her. Gwen reaches for it, only for Supergirl to pull it away.
"It's Red Kryptonite."
"Yeah, I know. Why does OsCorp have Red Kryptonite?"
Gwen thinks that's a pretty damn good question all things considered. She has some ideas about people who could be looking to replicate Kryptonite. She understands Superman had problems with Red Kryptonite.
"I don't know. We can find out."
Kara relaxes a little bit. Perhaps she should not roast Gwen. She's not running the show after all. A few seconds later, and Kara calms down.
"We can find out. Just get rid of the Kryptonite."
"I think that I'll hold onto it."
Supergirl's eyes narrow when she notices Gwen running some tests on something. Her curiosity gets the better of her.
"What's this?"
"An experiment."
She notices the computer running a simulation on something. It has a reading of the same spores that the DEO studied. She grabs Gwen's hand.
"What are you doing?"
"Helping a friend."
"What have you done to Alex Danvers?"
Gwen takes a few seconds to realize something.
"She's fine. I swear...she left a little bit ago. I can call her if you would like."
Kara shoves Gwen over the table.
"You better not have done anything to her. I swear, I'll rip your head off."
"Yeah, you need to lose the Kryptonite now."
Gwen jumps up over the table and wrestles the Kryptonite away from Kara. She pulls it away and causes the chunk of Red kryptonite out of her hand.
The scratches on Kara's hand indicates that she still has the affect of the Red Kryptonite. Kara's hot blooded mood brings her hand down and pulls Gwen up off of the ground. Gwen struggles against Kara's attack.
"We can just talk about this. I'm helping Alex and Lucy...they were affected by a meteor. Alex has been bonding the suit. I'm making sure she can control it."
Kara's eyes glow red.
"You should be finding a way to get the suit off of her, not encouraging her. Nothing good can come from a suit like that."
"Let go of me. I can't breath."
"You're going to tell me how to get the suit off of her."
"You can't...not without hurting her."
"You're a liar!"
"I'm not a liar. I'm telling you the truth. You don't want to hurt Alex. I don't want to either. She's important to you, isn't she?"
Gwen takes a couple of breaths, and Kara's grip loosens around her.
"Deep breaths. Deep breaths. Come on Kara, stay with him."
"Tell me where she is."
"She left...after we...well after we talked."
Kara's super heightened sense of smell gets a whiff of Alex on Gwen.
"You did more than talk. You've been corrupting my sister."
"Are you just jealous that you didn't have a chance to be with her first?"
That was the wrong thing for her to say. Kara's fist contracts around Gwen.
Gwen decides enough is enough and she pushes away from Supergirl. The exertion of strength causes Supergirl to fly back. She blasts Supergirl with a stinging blast. Another couple of blasts fire and hit Supergirl in the face.
"Cell Nine, Open!"
The cell in the back of the lab opens up. Gwen grabs Kara and judo-throws her into the cell. She's glad for those self defense lessons and even more glad for the spider strength to augment them.
Kara rushes in only to find a shield to block her. She pounds on the force field.
"I'll find out about the drones, the Red Kryptonite, and get your sister back here. But, you need to take five and I can't get any of this done."
Gwen makes sure the doors of the labs to the main OsCorp building is shut. Thankfully, she showed Alex a special entrance which allows her to get inside.
Supergirl's mood improves very little thanks to being inside of a cage which appears to be designed to hold Kryptonians. The red solar energy drains her power batteries, and she's riled up. She smashes into the cell and causes another flicker of energy. A couple of punches bounce against the wall.
"Just wait."
"Yeah, you'll make me hurt. I've got the advantage here, Supergirl."
Gwen's phone rings. She scoops it up and answers it.
"Talk to me."
"It's me, Gwen, what have you been doing?"
"Oh, I've been busy."
"Well, just to give you the heads up, I sent a friend of mine to ask you about your research on the Symbiote."
"Would this friend be Supergirl?"
A long pause follows over the phone. Gwen's very happy to strike Barbara speechless over the phone, at least for a second.
"Why? Is she here?"
Gwen whistles and takes a second to ask the question.
"Yeah, she's here. There's a problem. Have you been monitoring the news feed?"
"This wouldn't have anything to do with drones attacking Supergirl and her having a bit of a flip out."
"Yeah, something like that. Someone in this company sent the drones after her and someone has been doing experiments on Kryptonite. You know about Red Kryptonite?"
"Mmm...yeah. I know the results are unpredictable."
Gwen steals a look at Supergirl and she continues to seeth in right anger.
"And I don't think she's going to like me, even if the effects wear off. I'm working with Alex Danvers...the two of them are…."
"Sisters."
She figures its something along those lines to be perfectly honest. One look at Kara's burning eyes tells Gwen all she needs to know and the frustration which builds in this situation.
"I better call her then."
"Yeah, you really should. If nothing else, she might be able to calm Kara down."
Gwen reaches over to the cell phone and rings up Alex. She really hopes that she picks up. The angry Kryptonian off to one side of the room distracts her very so slightly, and the pounding on the cell continues to grow in greater prominence. The harder Kara pounds, the more her fists rattle against the cage.
She does feel for Alex, she feels for her a whole lot. And with Kara as well. Gwen really wants to know who is responsible for the drones, but one mystery at a time.
Somehow, Alex and Maggie make it to Maggie's bedroom, although their clothes end up making it on the ground a lot quicker. Well Maggie's dones, these days, Alex's clothes are very much a part of her body.
The two of them lie in bed, with Alex's arms wrapping tightly around Maggie and holding her in closely. Maggie lets out a breath. Her holes still ache from the encounter with the woman. It's amazing how a hook-up like this really puts things in perspective.
"Thank you for giving me what I needed. I might have done something that I regretted otherwise."
"It was my pleasure."
A kiss plants on the side of Maggie's ear and Alex starts kissing down her neck some more. Maggie shudders, as Alex looks to be turning on again. Maggie cannot resist Alex if she wants to take the lead.
The ringing of Alex's phone on the bed snaps Maggie out of her feelings of bliss.
"Technology ruins the moment. Not for the first time in my life either."
Alex turns around. She better get the phone, in case it's work or something. She picks it up.
"Hello?"
"It's me."
Gwen's voice on the tone has a certain tone in which puts Alex really on alert.
"I don't want to upset you, but your sister came by for a visit. And she was really upset with me, because drones attacked."
"My sister…."
"I know who your sister is."
Alex realizes things are going to get really bad.
"What do you want me to do?"
"Just come down here. Maybe you can calm her down. I've got her secured, but I'm not confident it's going to hold forever."
"I'll be there."
Alex hangs up the phone and turns to Maggie who sits up on the bed. The bed sheets hang alluring off of her as she rises, which makes Alex a bit frustrated she has to leave.
"What is it?"
"Family emergency My sister."
There's a moment where Maggie considers and nods.
"Sorry, I had to dash."
"No, if it's something that happened with your sister, you really should go."
Alex thanks her for understanding. She moves off, wondering what to do next. And the fact there's drones that attacked her sister makes a primal part of Alex want to rip apart the person behind it.
To Be Continued.
