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Kara Danvers noticed a ship in the distance. It looked like the same patrol ship they had seen earlier when they first arrived. This time the ship was headed straight for the island.
"Time to move," she helps Overgirl up.
"Move? Why? I am enjoying lying here with you."
"Unless you want to get arrested," she gestures in the direction of the sky. "Uh... maybe we won't be. Maybe we can explain our boat got broken up by the serpent you saw earlier? Maybe they will help us."
"I am tired of being on the run." She looked at her sadly. "Aren't you?"
She closes her eyes and nods, "I am... just also afraid of going back to the arena."
"We will not be enslaved. That was a different world. If you want to be with civilization- which is better than this island, I think we should talk to them." The ship is rapidly nearing heading to shore. "Why don't we hide? We can see if they are nice, and evaluate them?" She sees some tall trees. "We can watch them from up there." She points at a tall palm tree.
So, they are sitting in a tall palm tree. For now, they hid what little stuff they had and are watching the ship land.
Both the girls watched as a team of six people left the aircraft. They saw they were in uniforms and are armed. They listened for the language and fortunately spoke the language of the same planet's they had been on. They were talking about finding something, they knew it wasn't them as it had a strange word to it. The team of people called themselves protectors - is the best way it could be translated.
"Protectors of what I wonder?" Overgirl whispered in Supergirl's ear. They watched them pull out scanners and saw they were scanning the beach.
Both the women looked at each other puzzled only to see the scanners light up and set off a high frequency sound. It was so loud it was bothering the Kryptonian's ears. Still hanging onto a palm branch Overgirl tried to cover an ear. She looked at Supergirl in alarm.
The ground shook and suddenly an impossible creature- a huge cross between an earth worm and a snake erupted from the ground. They watched as the team lassoed it and two others seemed to be tagging it and drawing blood.
"I think I know what this place is..." Overgirl whispered softly. "It's a sanctuary for all these mean animals and plants. We certainly know how to pick em," she comments and keeps her hands clamped over her ears as they're still ringing. "That thing was under us!" She gasped.
She nods, placing her hands onto the branches to steady herself. "Yeah... uh-oh-" one of the men spots their shelter and motions to another.
They set off the sounds to another erupting from the surface. They see them put a hand on their ear and make a call out. Soon they see another team come out of three people and walk over to the shelter. They watch as they place their scanners out and scan around the site. They pick up a piece of torn cloth that Supergirl made into a bandage for Overgirl's foot.
They see them pull out another instrument and scan the blood on it.
"Oh Rao..." Supergirl whispers and covers her mouth.
"Rao!" She whispers along with her twin. "We are either going to be experimented on or arrested or both." Overgirl whispers in her ear. "I'm sorry. I thought we could talk to them."
"Kryptonian! We know you are here. We don't wish to harm you!" One of the officers called out in a type of speaker phone.
Kara Queen raised an eyebrow to Supergirl. "Can we trust them?" She asked. "They know who we are, but they only think there is one. How about one of us goes? The other stays back just in case? I am the injured one, I should go. If they match the blood it will be mine anyway. Why give both up? Maybe they will help us?" She looked at Supergirl for a response.
Supergirl thinks about it long and hard, she shakes her head. "I'm going down," she whispers. "We're the same person, no matter what the DNA will match," she flies out of the tree and lands before him, happy to have her pants on and super top.
Overgirl watched nervously the meet up. They see her land, and they put their hands on their guns, but don't draw them out yet.
"Kryptonian? We thought you all perished." The man with the speaker phone spoke up.
She raises her hands up in a gesture of 'no harm' And keeps her distance. "I was sent away from Krypton as a child and grew up on another planet. However recently I was kidnapped and escaped to your planet," she decides the briefest of explanations should be good enough.
"How did you get here?" He took his hand off his gun and motioned to his team to stand down.
She wets her lips, "I stole an escape pod from a ship... crashed miles-" she thinks about it, probably not the same measurement system. "A long way from here."
Some medics stepped forward. "Let us help you. You have been injured by the Arloque. It kills most of its victims." He gestured to the sand. "Come sit, it may not be too late."
She blinks and bites her bottom lip, "I have a friend who was attacked in the water earlier..."
"Another Kryptonian? It is the one native here that has been deemed too dangerous and we have tried to put it down but won't die!" The man in charge explained. Kara noticed he was humanoid but had a blue tinge to his skin. He looks around. "She died from her wounds or was eaten I presume."
Overgirl flew down landing and rolling to try to relieve the pressure on her foot. "Not eaten and not dead yet." She told them attempting to get up and deciding to kneel in the sand instead.
"We've been through a lot in the last week and didn't know the planet or whom we could trust," she explains and gestures for Overgirl to step up to be treated first.
The medics help her up and set her on a portable cot. They see the bandage fashioned out of the cloth and pull it off to examine her foot. "You did a good job of relieving her injury of the poison. However, without this," one of the medics hold up a hypodermic, "she could still die."
"Wait!" Overgirl stopped the medic. "I am fine now, other than a proper dressing I don't need your medicine. My friend cleaned it I am fine."
"The poison is still running your system. You should be unconscious from the pain." The medic told her examining the wound.
Kara walks up to her and places her hands onto her shoulders, "let's be sure, okay?" She leans in close to whisper, "if anything happens I'll whisk us off."
Overgirl looks up at Supergirl. "Will you tell them we heal faster?"
"You should be delirious at best, dead at worst."
"I am not allowing you to inject me. Besides it won't penetrate my thick skin." Overgirl says.
"I could give it to you another way. However, it might make you sick."
"I soaked her foot in the spring up there, until all of the puss was out," Supergirl explains.
"You saved her life. Now let's make sure it doesn't spread."
"Kara I don't want it." She told her through gritted teeth as they were ministering to her.
Kara holds her hand out, "she'll be fine then, but I have to ask... what's the plant in there that tracks movement and lashes out?"
"You got stung by that too that's the Smesh." He told her grim, "You both need this antidote, it is running your system. We're going to hospitalize you and make sure you're treated properly."
"But I'm fine!" Overgirl screamed trying to get up. She is afraid of what they might do to her
"Both of you need treatment now!" The medic insisted.
Supergirl stands between her twin and the medic, "hold up... what do you know about Kryptonian physiology? We heal up really fast under a yellow sun," she points to the sun above their heads. "Can I talk with you?" She asks the blue tinged man.
"Okay." He walks a little way away from the struggling Overgirl. "I am listening." He tells her watching the medics help Overgirl up.
"We don't want any trouble, we just want to go back to our own planet but," she looks back at her twin with concern. "We have no idea where we are in space... do you have a space gate we can use to connect to Earth?"
"Earth? I have no idea where that is. Once we get you treated I will make sure to bring you to the Science department. They can see if they can locate that planet for you. But you need to come with us. You both have been poisoned- and from what you told me you both- especially her, should have been killed by the attacks. The Smesh plant has been known to kill without being treated. Between it and the Arloque."
"Can I expect to get sick again?" She asks out of curiosity, she pulls away her bandage from her thigh to see how it's healing.
"Yes. See that red mark? It is in your blood stream. You both need to go with the medics right now!"
Supergirl grumbles to herself, "great... our skin is supposed to be impenetrable," she swallows. "What guarantees do I have that we won't become science experiments?"
Overgirl stood up. Arms crossed looking stern. "What if we don't want to?"
"You can wait a few days. When you both fall unconscious we will admit you then." He shrugs. "It's your choice. As for being science experiments we are a protection team. We wish to preserve this sanctuary. We want to help you not harm you."
Supergirl folds her arms across her chest and contemplates, "what if I go with you willingly to look into our planet and she stays here but you give her the drug?"
"You will both need the poison filtered out of you. She is beyond the drug. This happened what? A day or so ago? You are both in danger of collapse. The drug is for us if we are attacked, we have to use it immediately or risk dying from the poison. The plants are the biggest culprits here. The Arloque is without a doubt- deadly. Most get eaten when attacked. That's why no one comes to this island. The Wyrum that we just tagged are prey to the Arloque when they swim."
Supergirl rubs her face and looks at Overgirl, "I'll do it... just to be safe and she had it happen today, mine was yesterday."
"Ah, you are both in danger. Come with us." He puts a hand on her arm to lead her. Overgirl balks. "Kara - a word please!" She limps over to her and grabs the other arm.
The officer let her go to talk to her twin. She pulls her away from him. "How do we trust them? I am fine. Maybe with our Kryptonian physiology we escaped the worse if it." She argued.
Supergirl closes her eyes and walks with her, "you don't... but I'm healthiest. I can still escape, and you can stay here or... I don't know," she opens her eyes and groans. "What I do know is I can't leave you to these elements," she gestures to the surroundings
"Please Kara? I don't want to go, and I am afraid." She looks down embarrassed. "I am afraid to go...and to stay." She told her quietly. She wiped tears out of her eyes. "I'll stay." She decided resolutely.
She places a hand onto each of her shoulders, "they know we're here," she says softly and takes a deep breath. "And I didn't want to scare you, but the redness is starting to return to my leg. I intend to get answers but I really... really don't like the idea of leaving you here."
"They say I am going to fall unconscious in a day. I still don't want to go. I am afraid of what they will do to us." She thought for a moment. "At least here I am free to die."
She rubs her shoulders, "I'll be back before then, I promise," she assures her and can feel beads of sweat going along her hairline again.
The officer takes Supergirl's arm. "You both need the poison filtered out of you." He talks softly. "If we wait to take her when she falls. It may be too late. Just saying." He warned her. "It looks like you care about each other. You need to convince her to come."
Supergirl shakes her head, feeling the adrenaline starting up again. "I do but we just went through a lot, I was forced to fight for the both of us while we were held against our will!" She pulls her arm free.
Overgirl limped back into the shelter and sat down.
"You were in the arenas?" He asked amazed.
Supergirl puts the palm of her right hand to her forehead, "I am not going back there..." she swallows.
"We don't have arenas here. You don't have to worry about that. I promise you. But if you don't come soon you will be comatose and then die from the poison." He tried to reason with her. "Haven't you been through too much to die from a plant and a beast? I am Capt. AMALJ BY the way."
Supergirl closes her eyes and turns to Overgirl, "Kara..." she whispers but knows she can hear her. Her other hand takes his shoulder as she feels her head start spinning and sweat starts dripping down the sides of her face.
"And you are Kara? Your system needs filtered now!" He holds Supergirl and takes most of her weight.
She nods, slowly, "yes..." Supergirl takes a step but staggers. "Overgirl... please," she asks.
"Are you coming or not?" He asks the stubborn Overgirl.
Overgirl gets up and limps over to Supergirl. She grabs her from him. "Are you sure?" She looks her into the eyes. They are both barely standing. Overgirl too is sweating from the exertion and now she knows also the poison.
Supergirl tries to keep her head up, "it's hitting me a second time... I... I c-can't," Overgirl would notice she is very sweaty. Her legs barely supporting her.
"I think we are dying Kara..." She told her sadly.
"You are!" The captain told them as he motioned his medical crew to take them.
The two stricken Kryptonians were placed on stretchers. Overgirl still tried to resist, but Supergirl too far gone to struggle. Overgirl tried to rise from the stretcher. Supergirl was quickly loaded into the ship. Overgirl could not be yet as she struggled hard against them.
The medics tried to soothe her to no avail. They looked at the Capt. desperately.
"She can come on her own for her friend then, maybe if she sees that we're telling the truth she'll allow us to treat her..." the Capt. says frustrated.
"She will die!" The head medic told him trying to hold her down. Suddenly due to the exertions Overgirl started to seizure.
"Now we can take her!" The Capt said "Load her quickly!" They complied.
Soon both Kryptonians were headed to the hospital.
What is in store for our girl's now? Do these individuals mean to help them or is there a hidden agenda? Please Review!
-SLITH/LVEZ