Chapter 9

By the time they landed at J'onn's garage, Winn instructed them to go straight to the bank, not realizing they had brought a visitor with them. James had been rushed to the DEO medical lab for treatment but Alex was still looking for J'onn, and Superman was helping. All three of them flew to the bank, hoping to help in the search. Alura had to get used to flying and so her daughter helped her get to the site.

"I'm glad you're back," Alex practically tackled her sister.

"Me too. No luck finding J'onn?" Kara asked.

"Nothing on the comms and Superman is scanning the remains of the building for any heat signatures but so far nothing," the redhead was upset. Kara heaved a sigh and was about to say something when she heard her cousin shout,

"Lead!" She and Mon-El rushed to his side.

"The bank vault must have been made out of lead. I can't see through this section of debris," Clark said, giving his cousin a slight smile.

"You think J'onn is under there?" Mon-El asked.

"Only one way to know for sure," Clark knew that what they might find would not be good. Kara nodded and looked at the scene around her. If they picked up those pieces, it would not appear that the rest of the remaining structure would collapse.

"Who tries to rob a bank by blowing it up?" She asked as she grabbed one of the pieces of bank vault.

"That is a job for you guys once we find J'onn," Clark smirked as he grabbed another. Mon-El made ready to look through the area with his x-ray vision once the lead was out of the way. The two cousins moved the bank vault walls and the former Daxamite quickly scanned.

"I've got a hole in the floor full of debris and no sign of J'onn," he relayed to him.

"Down the hole we go then," Kara said. They quickly worked to get the building bits and pieces out the way and not far from the rubble pile they found an unconscious Martian, blood trickling down his forehead. Kara checked for a pulse and breathed a sigh of relief when she found one.

"Get him out of here. Mon-El and I will see where this tunnel goes," Clark pointed to a long dark tunnel that the bank robbers must have used. Kara nodded and quickly flew J'onn up to the waiting Alex.

"He's alive but it looks like he took a nasty blow to the head," she told her sister as she set him down on the readied stretcher. The redhead barked at the DEO teams to get him back to headquarters on the double.

"How many casualties?" Kara wanted to know.

"No deaths but James and a few others got beat up by the explosion. Broken ribs, arms, and legs with cuts, scrapes, and some busted eardrums," Alex explained before saying,

"So are you going to introduce me or…"

"Sorry! Alex, this is my mom, Alura Zor-El. Mom, my sister, Alex," Kara smiled. Then both she and Alex were shocked when the Kryptonian pulled the redhead in for a hug.

"Thank you for helping Kara. You have no idea how relieved I was to hear that she had someone like you and your family when she got to this planet," Alura said.

"I feel like she helped us more than we helped her. I'm imagining there is a long story to go with how you got here and I'd love to hear it once we get things wrapped up here," Alex smiled. Now that J'onn had been found, they were practically done; just an argument over jurisdiction was left to have.

"Yes, of course. For right now, if you don't need us then I think we should get back to headquarters and at least introduce Superman," Kara said.

"I just have to coordinate with NCPD. I'm guessing that Maggie won't give up any ground on fighting these crazy guys any more than usual," Alex chuckled.

"I heard my name," the detective was already walking over.

"You know you're never fair from my mind," the redhead teased.

"Mom, this is Maggie, Alex's fiancée," Kara introduced her.

"Very nice to meet you. I certainly hope your daughter doesn't always bring you to crime scenes," Maggie joked as she stuck out her hand, knowing that that was definitely not the same Mom she'd been introduced to earlier in her relationship with Alex. Alura shook it and smiled back,

"Well for my first visit to Earth it is a bit disconcerting."

"I bet. If you'll excuse us, I need to borrow Alex for a bit so we can catch these guys that decided a bomb was the best course of action," the detective said.

"Of course," Alura smiled again and she watched the two walk off to discuss business.

"Why don't we get back to the DEO? Superman, Mon-El care to join us?" Kara called out to him. Her cousin and boyfriend had just flown out of the hole and tunnel they were looking into. Superman quickly relayed what they'd found to a DEO agent and the agent nodded. Then all of them flew back to the DEO.

To Be Continued…