Chapter 10
Clark had been excited to meet his aunt. They talked for a little while before he begrudgingly headed back to Metropolis. Winn then started asking questions regarding the Black Kryptonite.
"So on Krypton it's a battery of sorts but here it turns humans into Worldkillers and Worldkillers back into humans. I thought that it was just superheated Green Kryptonite," he said.
"It is which is why it was mostly just used as jewelry. I had no idea it did anything that you've mentioned until Zor-El used it to save Argo City," Alura told him.
"Well superheating a substance can change its chemical makeup, just not usually like that. It must have something to do with the sun rays as well," Winn postulated.
"Very true since Green Kryptonite does not harm us in Argo City but here it is toxic," Kara spoke up. Her mother nodded.
"So you need more of it so you can boost your power levels and keep things running. I have to admit, I can give you the formula to make the synthetic stuff but will you have the equipment to make it yourselves? I mean a formula is great but not if you can't actually use it," Winn said.
"Agreed. How do you make it here? You have a finite source of Green Kryptonite so you have to make it another way," Alura was interested in the process but not having a scientific background like her husband, she could not fully understand how it worked.
"The long and short of it is, we make synthetic Green and then superheat it until it becomes Black. Admittedly, it took a while to figure out what temperature made the Green hot enough to turn Black. We make the Green in a process very similar to Three D printing called Chemical Vapor Deposition," he explained. He then pulled up the blueprints for the machine that they used.
"I better make a copy of these for you too," Winn figured it couldn't hurt. They had to have someone who could make it work with the items they had on hand in Argo City.
"Perhaps it would be better if you travelled home with me. At least to give a quick explanation of all of this, especially since we cannot communicate with the outside world just yet," the brunette suggested.
"It might not be a bad idea. Mon-El can stay here to help catch our bank robbers and we can make sure that you have all the equipment you need," Kara said.
"Road trip!" Winn was all smiles.
"No one is going on a road trip. We're down a Martian and Superman. If Kara leaves before we catch these guys we're going to have a problem," Alex walked over to the computers where the three were sitting.
"Why what's going on?" Mon-El walked back into the main room. He'd been talking to Doctor Milo about J'onn.
"Well the reason it took me so long to get back is that NCPD found something that Maggie thought I should see. The bank's camera system was destroyed in the explosion but the red light camera up the block caught our guys running a red light," Alex handed Winn a flash drive and he inserted it into the port on his tablet. Pulling up the files, he sent them to the larger screen behind.
"Ok a panel van with National City license plates. Seems pretty stupid of them to run the red light with their plates exposed like that," Winn commented.
"That's what Maggie thought until the NCPD tech ran the plates. They come back to Thomas Coville," the redhead told them.
"Ok so how does that work? Isn't he in prison?" Mon-El asked.
"He's one of the unaccounted for ones that escaped after Reign ripped through the prison," Alex frowned.
"Still robbing a bank seems like something he wouldn't do," Kara pointed out.
"Well that's the issue, isn't it? He's not a man who cares about money. So whatever he took from the bank…" Alex let the sentence hang there for a moment.
"Must be of Kryptonian origin," her sister frowned.
To Be Continued…