The Starfire project was extremely slow going, with Tess and the Luthor Twins working over releasing her. It was the alien girl from the power source, without damaging it or causing it to release critical mass. Restoring her to a new body was actually easier than one would expect. Not completely easy, but easy for three geniuses.

"Okay, we do this right, and she's back, and Harry has another one with him," Alexis said, she looked completely and utterly serious. Rather more serious than she was normally and she took a deep breath to focus herself.

"And if she isn't….."

"Well if things go wrong, there's going to be a really big boom," Alexis said, moving over the simulation. Before they even started, they needed to ensure that the probable experiment was going to run it through. "This should work."

"Well of course it's going to work, I only came up with it," Alexandria said with a wide grin on her face and Alexis looked at here, crossing her arms angrily.

"There's no need for you to get uppity….."

"I wasn't getting uppity, I was just telling you to give me credit where credit is due," Alexis said, folding her arms underneath each other and glaring at her sister.

"Well, I'd give you credit, I give you plenty of credit," Alexandria said, crossing her arms and glaring at her. Tess gave both of them a stern look and both of the Luthor twins fell back into line, breathing heavily.

"Ladies, you better behave yourselves, and don't forget the job that we have to get done," Tess said, while there were some times where she was kind of amused by the antics of the twins, she did have her limits and this was one of those times where she did.

"We…."

Alexis's words were cut off as Harry made his way inside the room. The redhead's eyes drifted towards Harry, her mouth hanging open as she shook her head.

"Hello Harry," Alexis said with a wide smile on her face, acting like her and her sister was not bickering with each other just about ten seconds ago. Then again, the potential of a spanking might have made things more than worth it.

"We're just working here, no need to be suspicious of anything," Alexandria said in what she thought was a winning smile, her grin getting even wider as she looked at Harry and Harry's gaze dropped onto her, his mouth open.

"Well, is there a reason to be suspicious?" Harry asked, deciding to turn to Tess, who was a neutral party and would be able to tell him if there was any problems.

"Well, we've had a spirited discussion, and we think we might be able to get her out of there, with a little careful effort, we have to research the method a bit more," Tess said, grabbing Harry's hand, trying to appease him a little bit more.

"Exactly in what way?"

Alexis was the next one who jumped in. "Well we can't really get her out without disabling the power cell….."

"Because disabling the power cell will lead to a really big boom….."

"A really….really….really big boom," Alexandria said in excitement. "I mean the type of big boom that….."

"Makes the big bang make like a minor sparkle," Alexis said, looking completely breathless and Harry looked at them, raising an eyebrow. Tess seemed to mirror the look that he had on his face, hanging her mouth open.

"They seem a bit too excited about the potential for the big boom," Harry whispered to Tess and she nodded in agreement.

"Well it's not the fact that we're excited….well Alex might be….."

"No I'm not Alex….."

"Stop putting words in my mouth…anyway if we can somehow transfer the energy out safely….."

"We should be able to get her into a body, just like that…"

"Simple really, a child could figure out out…..which is giving a lot of people too much credit…."

Harry watched their verbiage like a tennis match. He was glad that he had super powerful stamina because otherwise he would be kind of tired.

"Make sure they don't blow up the universe," Harry told Tess and Tess smiled, nodding crisply.

"Gotcha."

"HEY!"

The twins crossed their arms and made pouty faces. Much to the amusement of Diana who made her way inside to talk to Harry. She raised her eyebrow.

"They're working on the Starfire project."

"It was a shame what happened to her," Diana whispered, she had met the Tamarian princess a few times and she had a warrior spirit that the Amazons had to admire. "But the Amazons….they're settling nicely as possible. Maybe one day we can return them to the island."

"Circe actually didn't do that?"

"Well she's claiming that she didn't, swearing up and down until she was blue in the face, and mother seems to think that the gods tampered with the island on their way to becoming MIA," Diana said to Harry but he smiled.

"We'll see….has your mother figured out what she's going to do to Circe, anyway?"

"She hasn't said if she has," Diana said and Harry and Diana exchanged a smile. Hippolyta was very likely to mull these things over in her mind for a long time before she made her move.

"It should be interesting," Harry said, he could not wait to see the show and he needed to make his rounds.

He would have to return here shortly, even though Tess supervised the project, Harry had some misgivings about the potential for disaster that this could cause.

Lois thought that she was going to go blind with all of the red and blue around here. She was going to try and take a look around the Legion of Super Heroes headquarters but it was just her luck that she landed smack dab right in the middle of a glowing tribute for Smallville.

The person, not the town, she was sure that there might be a glowing tribute to the town though somewhere. She just hadn't found it.

'You've got to be kidding me, right?' Lois thought, shaking her head as she hitched her breath. She paused for a second and she could see the symbols all around, along with the statue. 'Actually you couldn't kid me, you couldn't kid me on this, no matter how much you try. This is absolutely insane.'

Lois saw the hall of villains, some of these faces looked vaguely familiar.

"That's one of Toyman's creepier looks."

"Yeah looks like someone who should be on some kind of neighborhood list," Lois said, turning around to see Cir-El standing there. It was like she was talking to a female version of Smallville most likely because she was. "Oh, it's you."

"Yes, it's me, you look really thrilled to see me," Cir-El said, she felt some residual agitation towards Lois about various things happened in the past and she also felt some residual agitation towards Clark to be fair.

The mind of a clone was a terrifying place to be, especially one who had been combined with two high strung people there. Her and Cir-El stared each other down, neither wanting to be the first one to break the silence.

"Well it's just….you remind me of someone…..someone that I didn't part on the best of terms with," Lois said, trying not to sound too accusatory but she was failing just a little bit. Cir-El gave her "mother" a smile.

"Yeah, I know about that, the baggage that I have, from the both of you."

Lois blinked and she slowly turned towards her "daughter" with narrowed eyes. Cir-El didn't back up under her gaze. "What do you mean that we got baggage from the both of us? What are you talking about? I don't have any baggage!"

Cir-El grinned, shaking her head. "Oh, denial is really something that you're a master of, isn't it?"

"And what's that supposed to mean."

"Never mind, never mind, oh I have all of these issues that a therapist can sort out, my mother has Daddy issues….."

"I don't…." Lois started but then she stopped. Cir-El's grin got wider on her face. "What….what are you grinning at me for that…..what are you…what exactly are you….?"

Words often did not fail Lois Lane but it was one of those rare instances where they did do so.

"Because you know I'm right," Cir-El said, barely keeping her grin off of her face. She wiped it clean, but her amusement returned.

"Fine, I guess you're right, are you happy?" Lois asked and Cir-El looked at her with a slight roll of her eyes.

"I guess, I'm happy, if you're…..well never mind," Cir-El commented and Lois stepped towards her.

"What, what are you talking about?"

Cir-El shook her head a little bit, looking at Lois. The woman's mouth hung open as Cir-El stared her down.

"Really, what are you talking about?" Lois demanded, she really hated to be left out of the loop and Cir-El really was driving her a bit mad.

That's why you never got into an argument with what was technically yourself. You always were just going to give yourself a headache. Then again, only in her life would having an argument against herself make any sense.

In fact, it was one of the tamer things that she had to deal with during her time, which was a sad indictment of how messed up her life was.

"So, this is the shrine to Smallville?" Lois asked and she looked over things critically. "I know that it isn't my place to say….."

"You're going to talk about the costume, aren't you?" Cir-El asked her. That was something that had been driven into the ground so much, she was sure was bound to have struck oil by now.

"Well, duh, who wouldn't talk about that costume?" Lois asked, shaking her head and the wide grin spreading over her face.

"Everyone, apparently," Cir-El said with a smile. "It was a bad choice, trust me, and it's one that he would regret, just like there's a lot of things that you regret."

"Don't go there," Lois said, shaking her head.

"Oh, I'm sure that there's no need for me to go there, I'm sure that you've gone there plenty enough," Cir-El said with a smile on her face, as she saw Harry approaching.

"So, are you finding everything alright Lois?" Harry asked and the brunette spun around to face him, her mouth hanging open and she nodded wordlessly.

"I just stumbled into the Shrine of Smallville, but other than that, I'm pretty good," Lois said and she smiled at him. "So I was just thinking about getting a cup of coffee, would you care to join me….both of you I guess?"

"I'll pass, coffee does weird things to my biology," Cir-El said but never the less, she gave Harry a quick kiss and made her way off into the distance.

Lois smiled, despite herself and she followed Harry into the room of the lounge area. There wasn't anyone up.

"Hopefully my cousin the coffee addict hasn't drank all of the coffee," Lois said, pouring herself a nice cup of coffee.

Lois sat down, smiling and Harry joined her.

"So, honestly, how are you doing?" Harry asked, and there was a look that indicated to Lois that she better come clean with how that she was doing, for her own sake.

"If we're being honest….honesty, I'm actually a bit stressed out, I mean one minute I'm in the 21st century, and the next minute, I'm in the 31st, and….everything seems so alien," Lois said to her and she sighed. "I mean…..thank you for pulling my ass out of there, because what I saw, no one should ever see. Even though I don't really understand a lot of it."

"I'm sure that you wouldn't," Harry said, seeing Lois's tension and he decided of the best way to ease it.

"And…..well I shouldn't be a burden, all of the other girls seem happy….oh that's a good spot," Lois moaned, as Harry slowly worked circles around her shoulders.

Harry smiled as he continued to massage Lois's shoulder in circular motions. The brunette felt herself whimper underneath his efforts. His hands really did work some incredible magic on her and she panted at his efforts.

She was starting to relax, well in a matter of speaking. More accurately this was driving her to get a little bit horny.

"Yes, they are, but….."

"And you can claim full credit for it, you know," Lois breathed, as she felt his hands cup her shoulders, rubbing them down. Her mouth became kind of dry which was interesting because she was getting wet elsewhere. She was drooling in pretty much every sense of the world and that got her all worked up.

Harry was just beginning to get her worked up, just a little bit more and she would have it. The brunette smiled.

"Just relax Lois, and I'll take care of you." Harry smiled, rubbing her shoulders and he could hear her breath.

Lois's inhibitions were going, going, going, going….GONE!

"Damn right you will."

Lois got up to her feet, jumping Harry, wrapping her arms and legs around his waist, before shoving him back against the table with an extremely lustful kiss.

Harry paused, and smiled, his hands roamed her body freely, causing her to heat up with lust and passionate desire. His hands roamed down her, and pulled her skirt back.

"Time to relieve some more stress, I think."

"Well, I won't stop you," Lois said, with a wide ear to ear grin on her face, as she waited for Harry to work his magic and if it was as good as the gossip that she heard, it was going to be magical.

Triumph appeared in Tess's eyes. The experiment that they were trying to accomplish was not quite done, but never the less, she had something that could bare great fruit if she was willing to admit it.

"I can see you glowing, what did you find this time?"

Chloe was the one that said this to Tess, even though Harry, Kara, and Karen stood nearby. Given Tess's excitement could not be measured by any means, they were completely curious to see what she had found out.

"Well, yes, I'm in a good mood but it's for a good reason, I swear," Tess said, practically rocking herself and down, the joy in her eyes could not be beaten.

"I'm sure it is," Harry said, the grin spreading over his mouth and Tess shook her head. There was really nothing that could stop her good mood. "What did you find?"

"I found the Oracle Database," Tess said and Chloe paused, before she smiled and turned to Harry, a significant look dancing in her eyes.

"Do we need a history lesson, or do you need to…"

"You mean the big database that has records of pretty much anyone who is anyone from the 20th and 21st century, also considered by some to be the golden age of super heroes, "Kara said, explaining it in the most simple way possible and Harry nodded in agreement.

"Yes, it was put together by the mysterious information broker of the Justice League, the mysterious Oracle, who had vanished into nothingness after completing her grand achievement," Chloe continued, rubbing her hands together excitedly at this find.

"And it's been lost for hundreds of years and information hoarders have been searching for it for generations, because no one could put a dollar amount on it."

Harry smiled as he completed that sentence and Tess looked at him, half raised eyebrow, and smiled.

"Well, I don't think that I could have gone with a better explanation, even if I tried," she admitted and Harry smiled at her. "But, yes, this database is something that people have been searching for."

"We tried to find it….." Alexis said before her sister chimed in, nearly gushing with excitement.

"But even with our superior genius and intellect, we failed." Alexandria said and she made the most adorable pouty face in the world, which caused Kara to reach forward and pat her on the top of the head.

The Luthor twins recovered from their embarrassment and their disappointment, giving a long sigh as they returned to fire back.

"But after all of these years we think that we found it….."

"Well we're about eighty percent sure that we found it anyway….which is about five percent more sure than the last time that we found it but this is the holy grail…"

"Just imagine how many holes that history will fill up, how many things that we assumed happened would be called into question," Alexis finished, both of the twins finally out of breath from what they were saying.

"So, I know what you're thinking, and no it wasn't me, I swear," Chloe told the group and Kara, Karen, and Harry all raised eyebrows. Tess on the other hand, could not help but jump in, with a half smirk on her face.

"Guilty conscience much, Sullivan?"

"No, I don't have a guilty conscience," Chloe said, a little bit snippily as she looked at Tess and the she crossed her arms. "It's just that…"

"A lot of people thought that you were the person behind it," Harry said and Chloe smiled.

"Believe me, don't I wish I would have scrounged up that much information," Chloe said shaking her head. "But the problem is that I didn't, therefore I have no idea where the Oracle database could be."

The Luthor Twins smiled before chorusing in unison in a sing song voice. "Oh but weee doooo!"

"Yes, good for you, absolutely excellent," Chloe said with a smile, really there was no need for them to rub it in.

"Well you might have a good idea where it is, but you haven't really found it yet," Imra said, popping in to join the conversation.

"Must you be a downer," Alexis said, shaking her head. People doubted her genius and she supposed that her sister could be considered kind of smart as well.

"Sorry, I'm just being realistic," Imra argued and she decided to burst their bubbles with a rather real point. "People have thought that they have found the Oracle database for years, but all they have come up with was nothing."

She did not want to deter them but at the same time, she didn't really want to unrealistically inflate their expectations either.

"Well, we have something…"

"We're closer than anyone has ever been I think," Alexandria said, as she brought up the blue print to show them all. "See, it's right here."

Karen gave a slight groan as she looked at the blueprint. "Is that where I think it is?"

"Yes, that's exactly where you think it is, right outside of Gotham City,' Tess said and there was a sense of nervousness with all of them.

"Good, it's only in the badlands outside of Gotham City, not that the area inside of the badlands is much better, actually it's far worse," Chloe said and Harry raised an eyebrow, turning his attention towards Chloe.

"How so?"

"Well let's just put it this way," Chloe commented, ensuring that Harry's full attention was on her. "Gotham City really has gone to seed since it's prime."

"It's a jungle in there, a literal jungle," Imra said and she looked rather despondent. "With any luck though, we won't have to step one foot into that place."

Harry smiled and he could tell that Kara was thinking about the same things. It was Karen who was the one who voiced what everyone was thinking.

"Are we really that lucky?"

That was a statement that no one would want to give an honest answer to. Never the less, luck was something that a super hero rarely had to deal with, it was all about skill and a little bit of just stumbling into it.

"So, it's settled, we're off to the Badlands."

Harry smiled, somehow the Badlands seemed not to foreboding to him. Especially when he had to deal with a place that was dubbed for the Forbidden Zone for what seemed like centuries on end.

It was a full force group but then again, going after something as important as the mysterious Oracle database would require more than a handful of people there. It took three Legion transport vehicles to accommodate everyone who was going on the trip.

"I just glad that we landed," Tinya said, it would be a long time before she forgot how violently they all crashed into the Forbidden Zone.

"Yes, but any landing that you can walk away from is a good landing," Chloe reminded them, as Tess played the role of mission support, plus she had to babysit Alexis and Alexandria because they were still working on the Starfire project.

"Well a good portion of our members can either levitate the craft in the air and fly," Ayla said, rubbing her hands.

"Yes, that's a very good thing," Salu agreed, before she continued to speak. "But that doesn't make things any less rocky, you know."

"Yes, we figured that out," Chloe said, making her way to the warehouse. She was pretty sure that one of the big time Gotham City mobsters once used this as a hideout but that was years ago. This was the last place she thought that one of the most sought out pieces of technology would be found.

"Good to know that you got with the program," Harry replied and Chloe looked over her shoulder, half sticking out her tongue. Harry smiled, patting her on the top of the head.

"You know this is a pretty high tech lock for such a low tech place, I'm just saying," Chloe said, frowning as she tried to force her way inside.

"Well consider the person who was working on this place," Cir-El said and Chloe smiled, she nearly forgot it.

The doors swung open and Harry was the one that took the first step inside. Kara followed closely, with Karen, Diana, and Zatanna fluttering in behind them.

"Was it just me or did anyone else expect a load of traps to fire off the moment that we came in here?" Zatanna asked and Harry smiled at her.

"Don't worry, it wasn't just you," Harry confirmed to her.

"Oh that's good, I guess," Zatanna said, biting down on her lip, there was this sense of foreboding that she had and she wasn't completely sure if that was because she was near Gotham City or not.

"It was all of us, I think," Diana said, and her instincts indicated that something was up but she couldn't really figure out what.

Chloe sensed that there was something behind these doors. In fact, she wondered if there was more to this rundown warehouse that met the eye. Then again, it did look far nicer on the inside then it did the outside.

She reached the edge of a machine with some strange markings. Throwing all caution to the wind, Chloe touched her hands to it.

The machine started to rumble to life and Chloe nearly staggered back. Harry caught her.

"I think it recognized you because you were a registered member of the Justice League," Karen said, looking at the symbols on the side of it.

A doorway opened and there was a handsome looking super computer there but there was a glowing pink crystal in the middle of that array.

The pink crystal came to life before the eyes of the extended group. Some of them looked more awed than others, and Harry smiled as he could see a tall figure pop up.

First she was bathed in pink light, in fact, one could get the impression that her entire body was pink. Her hair slowly gained color, a nice red. Her eyes were a bright shade of blue, and she had a nice body. Full breasts with a black top, a flat stomach, and shapely hips, with toned legs in a long black skirt. A pair of glasses and high heel shoes appeared. She looked solid, even more so then Tess was.

"The Justice League still lives, I see,' the woman said with a smile.

"So, you're Oracle, ha, I knew it," Chloe said and Harry looked at her.

"Did you really?" Harry asked but Chloe waved her hands, shushing him quickly and Harry just simply shrugged his shoulders.

"Barbara Gordon," Diana commented, she should have figured that out. Hell she was pretty sure that Batman did, due to the fact that he was Batman.

"Oh, Harry, Kara, it's nice to see both of you again," Barbara said, looking at them with a bright tone in her voice. "Did you get the Forbidden Zone thing….."

"Yes," Kara said, and Harry placed his hand over her shoulders.

"It took far longer than we thought it would, though," Harry said, a long time, and they had to be put into suspended animation and be thawed out in the future.

"Well…..it was still sealed off the last time I went dormant," Barbara said with a smile. "And I know how you thought that the situation was hopeless….."

"It just escalated from there," Chloe said, it would be a long time before anyone forgot that entire Forbidden Zone mess and it just got much worse from there.

"But the important thing is that the nightmare is over."

There were some people who would disagree that their nightmares of that place was over but out of respect from Harry, they said nothing.

"Still, nice to see you Barbara….Star Sapphire power gem?"

"Well, I could have gone several different routes, but I figured that reconfiguring one of these things and uploading my brain patterns on this computer would give me a form that is both solid and mobile," Barbara said, as she walked across the room, wrapping her arms around Kara, pressing against her body with a tight embrace. "Case in point."

The two of them exchanged a heated kiss, obvious that this isn't the first time that both of them had done that. Their tongues ensnared with each other, and the two of them worked over each other.

Kara could feel Barbara's hands slide up her shirt, and touch her underneath briefly.

"Yes, I can verify that it's very real," Kara concluded, and there was some laughter from everyone.

"Very well then," Chloe said, shaking her head, smiling as exasperation filled her eyes. "So, just one question?"

"Hmmm? Harry asked her.

"Just how many girls from the past do two of you know?"

"Well, that's an interesting story," Harry said and he decided to bring Chloe and the rest of the group in to enlighten them.

Throughout all of history, the League of Shadows had many strongholds. One of them was deep in the heart of Gotham City, in the center of what used to be Sheldon Park.

Several large vines shot from underneath the streets, roaming freely. The fact of the matter was that there was no one who would even take down these vines. For years, Gotham City was a no man's land and with each passing generation, humans died off, slowly, slowly, until there wasn't a human seen for miles in Gotham City, or the surrounding badlands.

There was an urban legend that they had been taken underneath ground by the plant monsters of Gotham City, used as slave labor. These were rumors, no one was going to verify it. Even the former Forbidden Zone, that area in Scotland that was spoke of in whispers, was something that people dared to get closer to.

The Badlands formed a barrier, a warning, a sign that when you reached that area, one should turn back, not to stir up the creatures in Gotham City, to rile them up.

The largest, most grotesque plant monsters were further underneath ground. It was almost like they were human, but they had been mutated into something far worse by the elements. Those left in Gotham City when it became inhabitable, well they never truly died. They just eventually evolved into something else.

What did not evolve, succumbed to something hideous that roamed above ground. If the plants didn't get you, then the giant reptilian beast that towered over the city would get you.

In the midst of the temple, rested a large Venus fly trap plant. It was dormant for quite some time but it slowly came open.

Lying in the midst of it was a woman and quite the specimen of femininity as well. Long red hair touched her breasts, which were only covered by a pair of green leaves. Her skin was a nice shade of green as well. Her eyes flickered open, green eyes, burning with lust. She had a flat stomach and long delicious legs, that stretched for miles. Another leaf barely covered her center.

Pamela Isley had become Poison Ivy a long time ago. Wanting to make the world a better place for all of mother Earth's creations. A war that she thought that she won at least in Gotham City, once she commandeered this place and gave her plants the strength.

Humans understood finally what she did. It was her own little slice of paradise, where the entire world left her alone. The female's lips curled into a devious smile at the thought. Those who tried to trample on her beloved babies were now being brought in to whither.

But suddenly, she could see something, sense someone, there were guests that intruded upon her perfect kingdom.

"No, no one has come in Gotham City for some time," she whispered, the fluids of the Lazarus pit rolling off of her body, as the vines got up and they were swaying in her face, speaking to her. "Yes, yes, I understand, my babies."

Poison Ivy rose from the pits and surveyed her children, who stood behind her. If anyone foolishly stepped out of the Badlands and into her domain, they would be punished for trespassing.

But perhaps this could be a potential opportunity for her. All she would have to do is wait.

She sensed something interesting coming but perhaps she should give it the proper motivation to step into her domain.

It could allow her to spread her pull throughout the world and allow not only just Gotham City to be a haven for her plants but the entire world.

To Be Continued on August 21st 2014.