"You want me to what?!"
"Don't act like you didn't hear me Teagan." Lex said as he looked out the window over Metropolis.
"How am I suppose to steal something if you won't tell me what it is? Not that I really care if you get what you want or not but what if I bring back to wrong thing." He smiled briefly as he turned back to me.
"You seem to think I haven't thought this through. You cannot know what it is you're stealing because that sort of information could put you at risk. Tess will accompany you." Wow I didn't know he cared. Yeah right, it probably just puts his plan at risk.
"No offence but your secretary will accompany me? What she gonna do? She's just some hot chick you hired to take phone calls."
"Well Mercy's more of a living weapon really, also she's kind of a bodyguard." Tess Mercer walked in a stopped next to me.
"Okay, where do we go?"
Why did it have to be a highly guarded lab? Why'd I get paired with the secretary that never speaks? Why was I stupid enough to allow this to happen? Why was I doing all this to stop a guy I just met a few days ago from getting hurt? I would say it's the right thing to do, to protect him, but I don't feel like I want to. I'm trying to be the good guy but I don't feel like I'm suppose to.
"Can you tell me what we're stealing now?" I asked looking at Tess.
Silence.
Right, I might as well be alone. What did the pull out her tongue or something?
"Try and keep up okay, office lady?" I leapt down towards the buildings front door, making a slight crater in the ground. I feel like this was a time for subtlety.
"Well done you triggered the alarm." Well, it's my old friend, if you were an actual person I'd try to strangle you right now. "That's understandable."
"You're damn right it's understandable. Now if you dong mind id like some weapons. Don't want to hurt anyone so kindly set them to stun." a gun like shaped morphed around my arms.
"You're an idiot if what you think I do is set the your weapons to stun. I lower the-"
"Don't care." I walked through automatic doors to be met by guards, armed and ready to attack.
"Aww, that's cute. You guys thinks you can stop me." Lex had made a point of showing me I was bulletproof when he first took me. It was alarming to be shot at but I actually feel safer now.
Before I could use the sonic gun to knock them out, gunshots were quickly fired from behind me. I stared at the massacre shocked. I've never seen a dead body before and now I was surrounded by dozens. That wasn't what scared me though.
What scared me was the fact that I didn't feel anything. I don't care. They're dead and I don't care...
"What the hell did you do that for?" I screamed at her, no response. He arm was a gun. Lex was telling the truth when he said she was a living weapon. She transformed her arm back before ahead.
"Lead the way then."
She lead me through the hall and I wondered why I was even sent at all. Tess can obviously handle herself. she stopped with warning and I bumped into her.
"Unlock the door." She ordered, finally speaking.
"What makes you think I can?" Without answer she just pushed my towards the door so I was facing it. A device on the door scanned me.
"Authorised. B30, Cochineal." so That's why they need me. The lab has something to do with the Justice League. I'm in the system.
The door opened with a click as it unlocked and I pushed it open. The room was filled with tubes like the one I had been in just a week ago.
Tess led me to one and wiped away the condensation on the glass. It was a little girl with orange skin and dark black hair. Her lips were an unnatural purple, but then her skin was orange so it wasn't that surprising.
There was a metal plate with an engraving in it. The Dark Goddess. That must be what they call her.
"Let's get her out then shall we." without thinking it through I just aimed my sonic gun at the tube case and fired, shattering the glass.
The girl coughed as she was forced into a state of wakefulness. I picked her up, cradling her and she hugged the side of me. Aww, that's so cute. Wait, what does Lex want with a little girl?
"Let's go." we began walking out when I heard a skidding noise behind me as if someone slipped. Tess armed herself and aimed behind us.
"It's okay, it's probably just some scared scientist. Calm down Tess." I wait for Tess to walk completely out of the room before I walked back towards the far end of the room.
"Who are you and why are you following me." In a flash of red lightning A boy was right in front of me. "Bart?"
"Close. Very close." This boy resembled him almost completely, aside from his hair colour and eye colour. The Bart Allen doppelgänger was wearing a black outfit that glowed with black energy. "Wait you noticed me following you?"
"As we've just witnessed you aren't exactly subtle." He smiled evily, as if it wasn't possible for him to smile another way.
"Well I was trying to let you see me this time. Hope we cross paths again. Goodbye little evil one." He said keeping his smile. I'm not evil. He's not talking about the kid right. But no he was loin to my eyes.
"Which seems very likely since you're my stalker at the moment." Before I could even finish the sentence he was gone.
"You should stay away from him. He's not nice." The little girl spoke making me nearly melting at the sound of her voice.
"You got that vibe too, huh?" She nodded her adorable little head and I could nearly squeal about how cute it was. Nearly.
"My names Ryx'hal."
"Ryx'hal, huh? Where're you from?" I asked assuming she wasn't of this earth.
"Here. Mummy didn't want me so here I am." Wow, did the scientists tell her that?
"Hurry up!" Tess shouted at me. Guess it was we better get going.
"Daddy!" Ryx'hal squealed as soon as she caught sight of Lex. I was bringing back his... daughter.
"Hello my darling." Lex said in the most genuinely happy voice I've heard him speak in. He scooped her up giving her the biggest hug and she giggled happily.
"You have an alien daughter, that's new." He sat down with her at his desk.
"It's complicated but yes. Her adoptive mother wasn't very proud of her and attempted to leave her abandoned to die. A few assassins stumbled upon her and she ended up in that facility." Why would the Justice League do something like that? They had her in a cage!
"Why wouldn't you tell me that I was retrieving her? Why couldn't I know?" He smiled devilishly. He's hiding something. It's not that I'm surprised I'm just not welcoming the fact.
"I had my reasons. Believe me." That I will believe him on. I'm going to find out what that reason is.
"What o you want your newest living weapon to do now?" He was caught off guard for a moment.
"Hmm... The blonde fellow you spoke to today." he saw that, how? "Who was he and what did he want?"
"I have no clue who he was or what he wanted. It seemed an awful lot like he was after me. He's been following me since you kidnapped me." He pressed a button on his laptop and a holographic screen popped up in front of me.
"So that would explain why he was in your room last night." Woah. That is creepy.
"What do you suggest?"
"The black energy seems familiar. Try to ignore it for now and he may prove useful for me later." He made a gesture as if dismissing me and I took the hint and left.
I walked out into the hallway heading towards my room.
"So are you useful?" I asked waiting for my shadow's reply.
"I'd like to think so but apparently you're a lot more useful than me." Says who? Unless you're asking Lex. I don't know what people see in me.
"So are you gonna watch me sleep again? This isn't Twilight you know, I'm not gonna fall madly in love with you." He laughed slightly at my remark.
"That hurts my feelings Teagan. What? Are you saving that place in your heart for that weird green thing? I would of thought you'd have higher standards." Lex has no idea how much I wanna punch this guy, and he'll want me to just suck it up and live with it anyway.
"Do I at least get a name from you?" I asked as I turned around blocking my doorway.
"Nope."
"Then you don't get to watch me sleep. Its creepy as hell anyway." I slammed the door, locking with a clip the scarab made to lock the door.