Chapter 10

"She did what now?!" J'onn was not pleased when he was given the news by Clark. The two were standing on the balcony at DEO headquarters. Kara's cousin had been given a reprieve from Cat Grant when the blonde had showed up at CatCo. Kara had quickly explained that she had a lead and was just stopping by to check in. At that point, Clark had claimed he better get back to Metropolis and Kara handed him a file telling him that he'd left it on her desk. It turned out the file was Lena's lead poisoning cure workup along with a note.

"She told Lena her secret. To be honest, since Lillian already knows, I don't see the harm at this point. Lena has proven herself an ally and no friend of her mother. And she may have just solved our lead poisoning issue," Clark pointed out.

"Why has she not come back in?" J'onn just waved the thought off.

"Lena promised her a look at the actual compound that she had her scientists working on. I have to get back to Metropolis before Perry has my ass," Superman said.

"Thanks for all you've done today. Good luck," J'onn gave a slight smile and watched as Clark flew off bound for Metropolis. He moved back inside the building and gave a shout,

"Agent Danvers!" Alex came running with a file in her hands.

"What'd I do?" She asked.

"Nothing. Sorry about that. Your sister needs a good talking to but we'll deal with that later. Where are we?" J'onn wanted to know.

"All righty. Well the National City PD lab guys found a fingerprint on some of the bullets they recovered and they don't match any of the guys in custody or the dead ones. Maggie sent the file to us because the hit she did get isn't exactly someone that the police are used to handling. He claims his name is Ben Hill," she handed over the file and he opened it up.

"Has this been confirmed?" He gave her a look.

"I was about to confirm it with our resident expert," Alex admitted and the two quickly walked in the direction of the lab. There J'onn handed the file from Lena to Doctor Milo and Harrison Wells. They both promised to look into it while they continued to work on the formula for switching Mon-El's DNA to Kryptonian DNA.

The two then headed for the Daxamite's quarters and found him engrossed in yet another cooking show on the tablet that Winn had given him. He had recovered from his bout of dehydration and was trying to keep his mind off Kara's predicament with Kryptonite bullets. When he saw them coming, he set the tablet down and came up to the glass.

"Mon-El, you remember earlier when Superman asked you about other Daxamites?" J'onn asked.

"Yes…" he gave them a look.

"Does this guy look familiar?" Alex wanted to know as she pressed a picture from the file up against the Plexiglas.

"What? You think just because I was the Prince, I knew every Daxamite…" the sentence died in his throat as he focused on the picture.

"No but I'm guessing you know this one," Alex frowned.

"Do you have any idea where he is?" Mon-El asked.

"We're going to head out and look for him as soon as we finished talking to you," J'onn told him.

"My mother was many things but even she wasn't this crazy," Mon-El swallowed.

"What do you mean?" Alex gave him a look.

"Years ago, his Uncle Roxxas tried to start a war with Krypton. As you know, despite being sister planets, Daxam and Krypton never saw eye to eye. Roxxas believed that the universe would be better without them and started a campaign to try and get my parents to agree. My mother was all for destroying Krypton, as we all know, but my father knew we could not take them in battle. At the time, a war would have been very costly and the consequences would have dire should we lose. In order to quiet the talk of war before the Kryptonians found out, my father had Roxxas murdered, in a very public manner. Basically those that followed Roxxas either renounced their beliefs or made a point to stay under the radar. You have to understand, we did things very differently when I was younger and while I loved both of my parents; the way they did things was often not what Kara would call moral. At any rate, his nephew, this Ben Hill guy, disappeared not long after Roxxas was killed. I assumed he ended up like his Uncle. He was definitely forgotten by the time the planet began to be bombarded by Krypton's remains," the Daxamite explained.

"So he would have more than a grudge against your family and he certainly wouldn't take kindly to Kara," J'onn frowned.

"Yes. I wouldn't put it past him to try and reach out to my mother in her invasion attempt. Especially if he promised that he could help wipe the Kryptonians off the planet," Mon-El told them.

"He'd gain access to the Kryptonite and then should your mother's attempt fail, he could clean up the last of the Kryptonians. If she had succeeded he would have gained power in her new world order, possibly without her realizing who he was. Either way, he wins," Alex was not happy.

"Sounds about right," Mon-El heaved a sigh.

"So if we assume that this is our guy, how'd he survive the lead dispersion into the atmosphere?" J'onn wondered.

"Well he's had years being exposed to the yellow sun. Even the small amount of time that I spent here allowed me to live longer than the others. The yellow sun exposure is probably the key to solving my problem," the Daxamite said.

"Yeah we tried that remember? It made you sick enough that they could put a needle into your arm," Alex gave him a look.

"Point," Mon-El said.

"We better get on finding this guy. Get your sister back in here as fast as possible. She'll be safer here than out there in the open," J'onn told Alex. She nodded and grabbed her cell phone, having no idea just how much trouble the blonde was in at the moment.

To Be Continued…