Chapter Twenty-Seven:


Lena Luthor sat in the midst of the Oscorp Board Meeting bored out of her skull. The necessity of these things meant that Lena would have to suck it up and bare what she was doing. But, damn if her mind was not elsewhere and not on the date she had with a lovely younger reporter later in on the evening.

Bad form for someone of her stature to keep checking the time as well. Lena, however, was sorely tempted to do so. The minutes grinded by and the words done by this board director as he brought her up to speed, they just bored into her skull in the least engaging manner possible.

Lena knew he was a knowledgeable enough man on the ins and outs of the OsCorp West Coast Facility. It's just his way of conveying information left a whole lot to be desire. As in, it was not at all engaging. Then again, most of the Board Members seemed to be tired old men and women, who only were in it for the investment opportunities. As long as OsCorp remained steady, as long as they got paid, they were fine.

Mercifully, as Lena figured, he was wrapping this meeting up to a conclusion and not a moment too soon.

"Projections are steady, although there is a caveat. Recent event have caused OsCorp to suffer great losses in property damage. While we are making as much on the overhead, we are losing. The only solution that this board can see as a necessity is to start laying off the low level employees."

"No."

Lena did not want to engineer any layoffs for the next six months. The man raised his eyebrow at her. Lena felt like the Board treated her like a disobedient child, but she pressed on depsite herself.

"No," Lena repeated. "I'm not laying off anyone. There are other areas which we can cut. Namely, Norman Osborn's obsessive Oz formula project. His attempts to replicate a super soldier serum that was long since lost to time have done nothing but cause harm to this company. And caused several of the people who work on the project to die or disappear under mysterious circumstances."

The members of the Board of Directors shifted very carefully in their seats. Lena knew she could strike while the iron was hot and she hoped to get in while the getting was good.

"My opinion is to scrap it and now," Lena said. "Along with Osborn's other questionable projects. Unless he's selling these weapons on the black market or to covert government agencies, I have not been able to find any profit in the OsCorp books. And despite our differences, I think you can all agree that it's very bad for business."

"The Oz formula could make us money if it could get perfected," one of the board directors offered.

"If it was going to get perfected, it would have done so by now," Lena said. "And what do you have for your legacy? Spiders? Many of them dead after a power surge."

"We have reason to believe that the vigilante known as Spider-Girl….."

"I don't think you can prove that, "Lena said. "And are you going to suggest that OsCorp somehow acquire to Spider-Girl and license her image?"

"Well, it wouldn't be the worst idea," one of the board members said. "If she had acquired her powers through OsCorp property, it would be vital that we would get to cash into it."

Lena could not stop herself from offering a disgusted sigh. They were either too dense or too used to the people running this company being frustrated by their bullshit to really notice at all. That just about summed up Lena's interaction with the Board of Directors in a nutshell.

She almost wished she had not made that vow to not let anyone go. Because the highest paid contracts were with management at this company. The only problem was that Lena did not have a sufficient amount of information to fire them.

"Do you have any other information that I might need to know?" Lena asked. "Actually, there's one question. Where is Donald Menken?"

"That's…."

A sound of a scream from outside interrupted this statement. Lena threw herself on the ground instantly which seemed like a foolish maneuver until an exploding pumpkin bomb shattered the window.

A sadistic individual goblin looking individual dressed in purple showed up. Menacing as all hell, he leered at the members of the OsCorp board of Directors.

"Who are you?"

"You may call me the Green Goblin."

He grabbed one of the Board Members and snapped his neck like it was nothing. Two other Board Members rushed towards the door. The Green Goblin shot green energy at them.

Lena rose up to her feet just in time to see the Green Goblin ruthlessly murder every single last member of the OsCorp Board of Directors. The last one had his head smashed into a fishtank.

Then the Green Goblin turned his attention to Lena who already pulled a gun on him. The Green Goblin grabbed her arm and disarmed her.

"Now, there's no need for that, Ms. Luthor," The Green Goblin said. "If anything, I did you a favor killing those bores. They think they know how to run a company. If anything, I made your job a lot easier."

The Green Goblin cackled and Lena struggled. The Goblin pulled her up and put his hand underneath her chin. He squeezed down on her and Lena's entire body goes limp, dangling from the Green Goblin's hand.

"My dear, we're going for a little ride."

The Green Goblin blew open several windows and left glass on the corpses of the OsCorp Board of Directors. He flew out, just in time to get a line of webbing against his glider and then Spider-Girl flew out of the other direction.

"What are you?"

Lena slipped from the Green Goblin's grip and started to freefall down to the pavements before. Spider-Girl moved to catch her descending body, only there was no need for her to do so, because Supergirl flew in and saved the day, preventing Lena from splattering into the pavement.


Despite losing his hostage, the Green Goblin did not sound too preturbed at all. Spider-Girl knocked him off of the glider. The Green Goblin flipped over and landed on the rooftop. Two pumpkin bombs hurled at Spider-Girl. She dodged them before doing a zip-line attack down and cracking the Green Goblin in the chest. The Goblin staggered back a half of an inch and looked on with a very obvious grin.

"Oh, you have those powers from OZ don't you?" The Green Goblin asked. "You naughty girl, stealing OsCorp technology like that. Maybe I should spank you?"

Spider-Girl never felt so very revolved in her entire life. The Green Goblin hurled two spiral pumpkin bombs at his adversary. She dodged the attack and came down with a huge kick to the top of the head. The Goblin caught her kick and whipped her around to throw her into a chimney which caused bricks to fly everywhere.

"Ruined my plan!" Green Goblin yelled as he leapt on the Glider. "Have some of this, you meddlesome insect!"

Three rockets bombarded the room Spider-Girl was standing on. Thankfully, Supergirl saved her before she could fall to her doom. The Green Goblin hovered over her and Supergirl sent heat vision at his glider. The Goblin performed a death defying move in mid-air that only someone completely insane could pull off.

"Oh, you brought a playmate!" The Green Goblin said. "Well, guess what Supergirl? Two can play that game!"

The doors of a building blew up. A large hulking figure who appeared to be made of metal showed up and blasted a beam of Kryptonite energy at Kara. Kara blocked the attack, but found herself wavering. Her heart beat faster underneath her chest.

"Supergirl I've been built to destroy you," he said. "Call me Metallo because I'm the ultimate enemy that you'll ever place."

The Goblin dove bomb Spider-Girl and sent her flying. He threw his bombs dow on the ground. Spider-Girl webbed onto the glider. The Glider released a pulse of energy which knocked Spider-Girl down .She grumbled, flipping over several times. Her body deflated from the impact the very second she hit the ground.

"Ugh, not ready for this," Spider-Girl said.

Supergirl was not doing too much better. In fact, she faltered the very second Metallo jumped in the air towards her. The Kryptonite beam from his eyes narrowly missed hitting her. Supergirl collapsed onto the ground and drew a ragged and harsh breath. She could barely hold it together, no matter how hard she tried. And she tried pretty hard all things considered.

Spider-Girl did a forward roll and landed next to Supergirl.

"Why don't we switch dance partners?" Spider-Girl asked.

Supergirl thought that was a good idea. She flew up to engage the Green Goblin and sent his bomb exploding before he can throw it with a good dose of heat vision. A second bomb exploded in his hand and burned the Green Goblin's arm. He howled in misery.

Metallo stopped when facing off against Spider-Girl.

"Let's dance," Spider-Girl told him.

Metallo slammed his hand down onto the ground and Spider-Girl avoided being plastered by her enemy. He swung two more punches, each of them more dangerous than the last. She webbed onto him and yanked the piece of Kryptonite. A second shot knocked him out.

Supergirl flew at full force like a ballistic missile and knocked the Green Goblin and his glider into the water at an insane force. It hit with a splash.

She rose up just in time to avoid and explosion. Supergirl moved in to extend her cape and stop a tidal wave from bombarding the mainland.

After disposing of the Kryptonite, Spider-Girl dragged a tied up Metallo.

"I called the DEO," Supergirl said after returning. "They'd be very interested to see if there's weapons."

"What did you do with Luthor?" Gwen asked.

"I dropped her off at the Police Station," Kara said. "Maggie saw her, she'll be fine."


It turns out, Lena insisted on returning to her Penthouse, with the National City Police Department accompaning her back. Maggie lead the charge, with Alex, who had stopped by to go on a date with Maggie, tagging along. There was something extremely odd going on here. None of them could put their finger on exactly what.

"So, do you see this as insane that he killed the entire board and didn't touch her?" Alex asked.

"Maybe," Maggie said. "But he did intend to abduct her for some reason. Before Spider-Girl and Supergirl came in."

Multiple murders and some kind of Green Goblin. Maggie longed for the good old days where the criminals were a lot less colorful and a lot more normal.

"Ms. Luthor I would like to ask you a couple of questions," Maggie said.

Lena remained calm under the face of fire. Despite being shaken just a tiny bit on the inside, she nodded.

"Go ahead, Detective," Lena told her with a small motion of her hand.

"Are there people who would want to do you any harm?" Maggie asked.

"There were people who did not want the OsCorp deal to go through for one reason or another," Lena said. "I don't want to name names because it's just hearsay and I don't have any prooof."

"Menken," Alex muttered so only Maggie could hear her.

"But, it could very well be someone who wasn't upset at you at all, wouldn't it be?" Maggie asked.

"You mean someone who wanted revenge on Lex and just used me as a means given they couldn't reach him in prison?" Lena asked. "If that's the case and you want suspects, we should start making a list. Between Lex and my father, we'd be here all night though."

"What about your mother?" Alex asked.

"I'm sorry, but if you want to speak to me further, I'm going to have to ask that you do so through my attorney," Lena said.

The fact she grew so calm and distant after her mother was brought up interested Alex. However, legally she could not go down that path of investigation just yet, and she had other problems. She got the call from the DEO that they apprehended something called Metallo and given that it was a Supergirl destroyig weapon, Alex needed to be right in the middle of this.

And speaking of her sister, Kara turned up in the blue. The guards moved to block her.

Lena noticed them and cleared her throat.

"Let her in...all of you let her in," the guard said.

"I'm pretty sure she won't harm a fly," Maggie said.

And personally, Maggie thought that if Lena needed protection, she could do far worse than Supergirl. Although the National City Police Department should guard them outside tonight, just in case.

"So, what are you doing here?" Lena asked.

"I heard what happened and I rushed over to see if you were okay," Kara said.

"I seem to have made quite the impression on you, then," Lena responded.

"A little bit," Kara offered seconds later.

"Dinner's off, but you can stay here and eat something if you'd like," Lena said.

"Oh, I'd like that," Kara said.

Maggie cleared her throat.

"You may stay here if you want," Maggie said. "And Ms. Luthor, if you would like to call your attorney, I would like to discuss this with both of you in the morning."

"I will do that," Lena replied.

The police hovered around and Kara moved towards Alex who got a message.

"Gwen, Indigo, and Astra already are taking a look at Metallo at the DEO," Alex said.

"And the Goblin?" Kara asked.

"No body," Alex said grimly.

Both sisters knew that no body meant no death. He was still at large.

"I'm going to help them," Alex said. "Stay here with Lena."

"Intend to," Kara said.

The sisters part ways and Lena watched them with a strange look on her face. She got enough to know that something was going on, although she was not sure what.

To Be Continued.