Chapter 16

J'onn cursed under his breath as he examined the situation. Luckily, the building debris was shielding them from the public eye but that was only for the moment. They couldn't carry Kara out of the rubble without showing the world that she had a weakness. Alex had called Doctor Milo and showed him the issues in front of them using the video chat on her phone.

"Ok what you're going to need to do is pull out the piece by her spine first. Then slap one of those new bandages on the area. It should infuse her with sunlight and allow you to pull out the large piece in her kidney without blood going everywhere. Then have her get back here as fast as she possibly can. Mon-El won't be able to hold on for too much longer before he starts having problems with…" the doctor didn't get a chance to finish his thought as Mon-El doubled over.

"Shit," Alex cursed.

"The lead poisoning cure is wearing off even faster because of the effort he expended. If you don't get him back to the containment unit immediately, he'll die," Milo told her. J'onn went to reach for the Daxamite when he held up his hand.

"This isn't the lead poisoning cure. It feels entirely different," he managed to get out.

"That's because I infused the cure with the DNA mutation serum. This is your first exposure to Kryptonite. The cure bought you enough time for it to start working," Harrison Wells spoke up.

"We will be talking about this later, gentlemen," J'onn gave them a look.

"Kryptonite sucks," Mon-El said as the Martian moved him away from Kara and the exposed pieces of her former home planet. Alex looked at Maggie who handed her the tweezers from the first aid kit.

"This is going to hurt," Alex said to her sister. Kara only nodded as she could feel her strength being sapped out of her. Carefully, the redhead used the tweezers to grab the piece of Kryptonite lodged near the blonde's spine. Kara bit her tongue as much as she could. Pain was not something she was used to and this almost felt as bad as when Clark was punching her.

"Almost there," Alex promised. Slowly, she was able to remove the piece and Maggie handed her the bandage. Alex pressed it down and she could visibly see her sister relax.

"Don't move until I get the one in your kidney out and then we'll…" Alex was interrupted by the sound of the people who'd gathered outside the building remains cheering.

"Clark," Kara sighed with relief but was then immediately concerned.

"Did you find our Daxamite assassin?" She asked.

"No. Even with his powers, he would have had a hard time getting out of here since you had just let go of him in time to save Maggie," Alex said, using the distraction to pull the large Kryptonite fragment out. It was just as painful as the small fragment but a second sun producing bandage went on and she almost felt like herself. Kara finally up-righted herself and moved a little to see how things felt. She wasn't at one hundred percent but she was markedly better.

"What happened here?" Clark asked as he approached the group, having used his x-ray vision to locate them.

"Nothing good but we'll explain more back at the DEO. Right now Kara needs to make her super exit without any assistance, if that's possible," J'onn said.

"Very possible, thanks to Doctor Alex. Can we get the scene sealed off and then back to headquarters?" Kara wanted to know.

"Already have a team working on it. Maggie can you coordinate with NCPD?" J'onn asked.

"Will do but first," the police detective landed a kiss on her fiancée's lips.

"Incorrigible," Mon-El chuckled.

"I didn't know he knew works like that. Speaking of which…" Clark gave his cousin a look.

"Long story," Kara said, smirking slightly, before the group got to work.

To Be Continued…