Minutes later Lana was hovering over Metropolis looking for her husbands current location, in the distance she saw him with his red cap flapping in the wind on the Daily Planet building. She quietly landed beside him not wanting to disturb his thoughts Lana kissed Clarks cheek "good morning my love."

Clark just about jumped off the Daily Planet building he was surprised by Lana being beside him. "What are you doing here, not that I'm complaining or anything but you startled me for a moment." "I thought Lois Lane was back here again and she crept up on me."

"Humm sounds like I need to give someone a bad hair month a little spell will take care of Lois Lane" said a visibly pissed off Lana.

"Baby it was a thought she never did anything like that just a nasty thought forgive me please?"

"How could I not Clark." He closed in for a much more intimate kiss from his wife. "We can't do this once the sun comes up somebody might see us up here and get the idea were a couple."

"Sometimes I just want to shout to the world that Superman is my husband."

"Just like I want all the women in the world to know Superman belongs to Nocturne, Lana." They kissed again and again. They came up for air finally, Clark is lost in Lanas eyes "um, I want to go home right now and make love to my wife but I'm on patrol until the sun comes up."

"Well, I can help you patrol you know" Lana gave Clark her sexiest smile. They took to the air together scanning the ground for trouble spots.

Lana points to the ground Clark see her hand signal and they both descend landing very quietly slightly behind a criminal who is trying to rob a couple on their way to work. "Give me her purse and your wallet and do it now." The couple stared at both Superman and Nocturne.

Lana speaks up "you know its not nice to steal from other people not to mention its very bad manors pointing a gun a someone."

"Aw shut up and hand over your purse too lady." Lana looks to Clark "hear that, he wants my purse." "Sorry I don't have it on me."

He turns to look at the new arrivals to see Nocturne and Superman behind him the crook gulps "um um" and takes off running. Lana casts a spell and the crook is floating in the air unable to control where he was going.

"Damn it" he takes his gun and aims at the first couple and fires the whole clip at them Clark and Lana superspeed in front of the scared couple.

Lana flies up to the gunman and takes the gun from him, "no more chances for you straight to jail with you, robbery and now attempted murder you are going away for a very long time." " We'll see if we can get you in with Bubba for a cellmate I'm sure he'll be happy to see you back."

Lana tapped him on the forehead and he was out, the couple was staring in disbelief that both Superman and Nocturne were in front of them. The man shook both heroes hands "thank you so much for saving us from him, I thought it was going to be the end." "We are happy you saved us you two should work together more often you make a nice looking couple."

Lana smiled at Clark told you see even they see it. "Thanks but were not a couple please remember to go to the police station and fill out a report they will hold him but they need your eyewitness statement to put him behind bars for a long time." Both Lana and Clark rose into the air with the criminal in tow, "remember to file the police report" as they flew out of sight to the nearest police station to drop off their charge.

JL HQ three days later

This was the biggest meeting to date of the full justice league, everyone was there. This was going to be the biggest operation they have ever tried. The ship didn't respond to any queries from the fortress.

Jor El's answer was that the ship is out of power or shut down those would be the only reasons for the responses they got at the fortress. Clark, Lana, and Kara looked over all the data at the fortress it told the story Jor El had said there wasn't any type of response from any kryptonian technology on earth at least the technology they knew about.

The ship was a mystery it shouldn't be there but somehow it was. Kara had experience flying this type of ship the model that brought her to earth was very similar to this one. The plan was to capture the ship and remove it to the fortress installing it in a magnetic confinement field until they can safely open the ship and determine if it is a threat or not. If worse comes to worse the other plan was to allow the ship to self destruct in orbit hopefully fooling the scanning sensors that monitor the upper atmosphere hopefully it will look like a exploding meteorite there had been quite a few in the last few years.

The biggest fear was this was some kind of Trojan horse to gain access to the fortress trying to take it over again just like Brainiac did a few years ago. This time that wouldn't be possible the eradicator program was purged and there was a new crystal interface that had to have Clark, Lana's, or Kara's living DNA to operate anything at the fortress. If someone tried to force their way into the fortress and take control they were phase shifted so their molecules were no longer in phase with normal mater making it impossible to touch anything until they were shifted back. It would be like being a living walking ghost you would be able to see the normal matter of the world just unable to interact with anything of the worlds normal matter.

Oliver called the meeting to order "today boys and girls we are going to plan out an attack on an installation we know very little about." "It is suspected that this could be a ancient Kryptonian stash but it could be something much more oblivious." So Bruce started to say something but quieted down.

Arthur stood up "I think we should approach from the ocean it will give us the fastest path there." "We can hid ourselfs as biological's, it will allows us to get very close and we can come on to the island from the beach." "It would allow us to exit if we detect something that is a danger to the entry team as well we can have several people on standby hidden in with the remaining biological's."

"Thanks that's one idea" said Oliver. "Next" he asked?

Bruce stood this time "how about a halo jump, whoever is on that Island would have no time to react to our presence."

"What happens if it is a kryptonian site and it has a energy dome we would bounce right off it or go splat against the field."

"Hum good point, more idea" asked Oliver?

"I like the ocean approach" said Kara "but what kind of biological's would we be imitating."

Arthur answered "either sea loins or a pod of killer whales." "The Killer whales might be the best bet but it depends on the ice pack they breath air so staying under water for a long time would be a dead give away."

"Ok something to consider" said Oliver.

"Ok next idea."

"We could just fly in and land looking like Arctic explorers it might get us on the island."

Clark spoke up "and it might destroy anything that looked like it was landing, if this a kryptonian base of any kind I would expect bobby traps."

"Thanks" said Oliver.

"Well anymore ideas" asked Oliver?

"What about snow mobiles across the ice pack we could get in fast and out fast too if needed."

Bruce stood again "Oliver and I have a project we have been working on for the navy its a super-sub it can go 10000 feet deep and its also very fast under water it can reach 80 knots on the surface." "It also has three special aircraft they look a lot like some of my batman craft." "It needs a crew of 35 to run it but it can carry 180 navy seals with all their gear."

Several whistles are heard in the room, Oliver looks at Bruce "well that is if we can get it out of the top secret sub base where its stored at the moment." "Come on Oliver all we have to do is say the magic word upgrade to the Navy they will let us move it back to our shipyard in Washington for any work we what to do remember they haven't paid for the damn thing yet so it still is ours until they cut a check to pay for it."

"Now that you mention it your right so we have another way to get a lot of people on that island fast do you remember those hovercraft we built for the marines?"

"They were deadly no mater what surface they were on how could I forget."

Oliver groaned "yea we built them their toy and they decided it worked all too well did we ever get paid for them?"

"I don't know but I know they are in our shipyard in Washington just sitting there Oliver."

"Ok then we have a lot to talk about."

"Hold on Oliver tell them the rest."

"Its not just a bad-ass landing craft but a small fleet of landing and assault ships."

Mummers are heard around the room until Bart burst out with "dudes its like our own navy", everyone laughed at that. The meeting went on for some time.

Lana had been watching the boys talk back and forth it sounded to her like I have the bigger toy discussion.

She looked at Kara "I have a question are we going to take and hold the island or are we planning a fast operation with retreating from the island with anything we find there?"

Kara smiled "I agree with Lana what if there is a lot of stuff we need to take away with us when we leave the island."

"Well that's something" said Oliver.

"What does that mean" Lana asked Oliver?

"uh we didn't think about that he admits sheepishly."

"Well its something we need to be prepared to deal with" insisted Lana, Kara nodded along side her.

Clark stood "I have a thought lets break this meeting up and reassign elements of the plan to sub teams and then get back together to review the plans afterwards".

"That's a great plan honey" said Lana smiling at her husband.

The plans were drawn into three phases ingress, egress, and extraction elements. The teams were divided up and assigned to each task subset. The objective was to present a complete plan on each phase the group task was to match up the plans together. The meeting adjourned for the moment.

Later the same day

"I'll pass on that thank you very much. said Kara"

"Ok" said Clark "so what do we think?"

"Lana's plan was the best so far but I want to be in the action role if you two don't mind said Kara."

"So if you go in we use our telepathic abilities to communicate."

"I wish there was a way we could see what you were seeing that way if anything stuck out one of us might notice it and alert you to what we see as a danger."

"I keep forgetting you weren't raised on Krypton Clark, that's a ability all of us have."

"Clark you have to practice it but you can see out of any living beings eyes as long as you can connect to their mind."

Clark and Lana were both surprised. They both said "we can see out of someones else eyes?"

"Yes don't be so surprised, if you completed your training you would have discovered this ability."

"Kara, Jor El never let on about this ability."

"I wonder why" asked Lana.

Kara spoke up "guys its not important now, the ability is there you need to learn to use it before we start the operation."

"Your right Kara" said Clark. "How do we use this new ability he asked?"

"The calm state you use to talk to each other is the first key the second is opening your mind to other minds, once you can sense someone else around you, you can attempt contact just be carefully to not to make too deep of a contact and get yourself lost in the contact its easy to get lost in someone's else mind focus on their visual pictures in their mind." "That should keep you from getting lost in their mind."

"Ok you want to try first Lana."

"Sure Clark lets give it a go shall we." Clark relaxes thinking of nothing much Lana is focused on her contact with Clark "ok I can feel his mind and there is his visual center."

Now to find the visual part that's his eyes" Lana focuses she finds his visual cortex but there is no pictures Lana is confused she breaks off contact turns to ''Kara I found his visual cortex but there's no pictures it was all black."

"Lana look at your husband."

Lana looks over to see Clark fast asleep "well that explains a lot."

Lana walks over to Clark "baby wake up" she slightly shakes him a little "baby wake up."

Clark stretches "did it work" he sleepily asks?

Lana smiles at sleepy head "it works just fine when the person your trying to connect to is wide awake."

Clark smiles sheepishly "oh I guess that would help."

"So I have to stay awake this time ok I can do that."

Kara rolls her eyes "men" she mutters under her breath. Lana sits down again she gets ready to attempt to this again.

"Um baby" she says "this time try to stay awake ok?"

"I will be awake Lana." Lana reaches out to feel Clarks mind she can feel his presence this time she finds the visual cortex and she herself thru Clarks eyes "whoa that is different, I can see myself its weird to see my lips moving." Lana breaks contact with Clark "ok now you try sleepy head."

Clark focuses on Lana he feels her mind he finds the visual cortex and the next thing is he's seeing himself "wow that's weird" he raises his hand and waves to himself. Clark breaks out of the contact "that is just too strange that has got to be the weirdest ability we have" said Clark shaking his head.

"Yes strange but still useful" said Kara "it will allow us to see whats going on inside and whoever is outside will see what's in the cave in case of any traps." "If were lucky the traps will be stasis fields, if were not we will have to act fast to save whoever goes inside."

Clark at that moment felt the weight of the world on his shoulders like never before their lives could be at risk this time. Lana saw the change in her husband now wasn't the time to talk about this but later tonight before they called it quits they would have a long talk.