Chapter 2: Deteriorating Drive/Desperate Measures (4 AM)
"Her percent...age.." Brainy silenced his words upon hearing the heavy boot steps approaching. When he and Nia looked over first thing they noticed is whom was with both Lena and Alex. "Oh my…"
"Kara...oh no...Rao no…" Alura was at her daughter's side instantly but with the close proximity of the kryptonite she immediately felt much weaker as if it was draining everything out of her. She was forced to back away as her eyes began to water. This isn't something she'd ever wanted her daughter to have to face.
"Alura..I may have a solution for you so this doesn't affect you." Lena explained and she pulled the reluctant kryptonian from the room beckoning her to follow her to the training room where she'd had Kara keep her locked suitcase. Alex however stayed beside her sister unable to grasp how much worse the situation had become.
"Brainy…" She got the man's attention grabbing a notepad and writing down a vault number slipping her card key out of her pocket handing him both. "...go to this one and get the box with the anti-kryptonite shield in it..NOW!" He didn't need to be told twice dashing out of the room in haste. "How did they…" Alex couldn't comprehend how an element that lethal far worse than any other kryptonite could be even in existence on Earth. Was it something her own agency had here all along? It both terrified and angered her at the same time.
"What can I do?" Nia stepped forward coming to Alex's left side. She wanted to help in any way that she could. Kara didn't deserve this and the fact she couldn't see it coming brought chills through her body.
"At the moment? Anything anyone that CATCO can find out about any of them would be good." Nia nodded running out of the room. Alex turned her head to watch her leave until the machine's blare brought everyone's attention back to the woman in grave peril. "No no no...Kara no…"
"Oh my god…" Amelia ran over as Susan handed her another fresh tank with another mask and she quickly slid to the head of the bed placing the mask over Kara's face turning up the tank praying the fresh air would help. "Alex her body…"
"I know..hurry up dammit.." They saw him run in as he handed it to her which she was about to put on Kara's chest until her eyes saw traces of green in the woman's veins on top of the gold flecks on Kara's skin. Alex set the shield on her sister's body praying it was enough to at least leach out the green from Supergirl's system. Her browns locked on Kara's face and when she saw her sister's fingers slightly curl bringing on shakes and bucks of the head she knew exactly what that meant. "No….you can't do this to me again. Not again sis.."
"Alex she's…" Hamilton tried to say but the Director was already aware what the shakes and bucks meant.
"I know...c'mon dammit WORK.."
Lena and Alura came running in with Kara's mother in a suit none of them recognized. Quickly the woman was at her daughter's side once again, now with the protection of Lena's prototype gear. She looked up and over to Kara's sister noticing the internal struggle in the Director's face.
"What the…" Lena's emerald hues widened at the green she saw along her best friend's veins. "Gold AND…" She was fuming clenching her fist gripping the end of the metal table inches from her best friend's trembling body. "Why isn't it working Alex? Why isn't it leaving her body?"
"It's the gold…" Alura explained her lower toned voice as shaky as the rest of her. "The gold is making it more difficult for the shield to wretch the green kryptonite from her system. What is…" Her daughter's body started to shake worse her head bucking harder. "Alex what's…"
"She's seizing! No no….Kara dammit!" Both her and Amelia were running opposite directions, her to her lab to get her tray of serums and Hamilton to order her nurses to prep the OR.
Alex rushed into her lab going to the locked temperature controlled cabinet but slammed a foot before it with much wider eyes of nothing but shock and fury at the sight before her. The cabinet doors were wide open the shelves completely empty. She looked around the floor and noticed glass everywhere at the side. Rounding the corner of the massive table her fists clenched her jaw tightening. There was broken glass everywhere, contents all over the floor of different samples and formulas. All mixed together they were absolutely no good to her, to her sister.
She took off out of her lab running back when she heard the one alarm on the machines she didn't think she'd hear again. Her sister's heart had stopped….again.. Alex booked it back into the room with everyone was as nurses and Hamilton surrounded Kara's body, trying anything they could to get her breathing again her heart beating again.
"Charge the paddles…" Amelia ordered as they were handed to her and she looked up at her boss seeing anguish all over her face. "The serums?"
"Paddles charged.." The nurse told her as they all stepped back.
"Clear!" Hamilton nodded to Lena whom reluctantly took the shield off the kryptonian's body setting the paddles over Kara with the shock of them making her shell jump from the force of the currents. The horrid sound of the machine hadn't changed and she demanded the paddles strength increased. She watched as Alex started compressions while Lena performed the breaths when Alex stopped for Amelia to shock her. "Clear!" They moved back and watched as Kara's body bucked once more but this time that despicable long hum began a beat then another then another. "She's back.."
"Fuck…" Alex backed away further and Hamilton ordered her team to rush Kara to the operating room. Lena had set the shield back on the blonde's chest just as a precautionary but she understood the shock that the Danvers sister was feeling. She was there too.
"Who did this to my daughter Alexandra?" Alura grit her teeth as Lena helped her suit retract. Alex handed her an oxygen mask not wanting to risk her health either. Alura put it over her face taking a few deep breaths then pulled it away. "Who...did...this?"
"My good for nothing, traitorous father.." Alex told her as fury built up even more in her. She watched Aaron come in with two of his team agents. "Remzi?"
"Got footage you need to see Director." He handed over the tablet to his boss. "Three of our agents left with James Olsen. He was seen leaving your lab.." Alex clenched one fist gripping the tablet tight as she grit her teeth. "Should we alert our agents to categorize him as a level 7?"
"I don't fucking care if you shoot his ass!" Lena snarled. "He's a hostile and a threat to everyone out there now!"
"Lena is right. He's a level 8 threat. Capture or shoot. He's jeopardized everyone's safety by his actions. If you can take him alive I want him detained by your team Captain Remzi." Alex met his gaze. "You know what to do when you have him."
"The three agents with him?" One of Aaron's team spoke up. "What of them? Category 8?"
"No. Category 4. Our agents appear here on the cameras to have been buzzed by that fucking voice. I want to know whom is the one responsible for that technology. I want to know of every fucking person that is helping Jeremiah, that bitch and the traitor Guardian. Spare no expense and take whomever we need to out in the field." Alex ordered her agents.
"Alex.." Alura was still looking at the doors where her daughter had been rushed through. "Tell me...show me what happened. I need to know everything so I can help her." Alex nodded taking a deep breath. This wouldn't be an easy conversation to have..
Kayla looked up at the clock that had just struck six as she slid into the walk in closet of her master bedroom to grab a set of boots she hadn't ruined in combat training or outings for their cause. Cadmus had been a joke all things considered, but it had given them the starter tools to start a new organization. Now, with Jeremiah as their mission general and James on their side as captain, things were running far better than they could have ever imagined. Then there had been their glorious obtainment her sweet loyal knight had provided her; a whole duffel bag of chemical compounds, bloods and locked samples of delicious dangerous minerals.
Kayla had just finished buckling her combat style black boots when one of her newest soldiers came into her room. She stood and studied the man and motioned him to shut the door and lock it. She flashed him one of her alluring smiles and he set down his shoulder gun on the floor. Her blue eyes fixed on his nicely muscled arms looking up at him shaking one brow and he took the hint removing his jacket and combat vest.
"Captain is out at our training camp. He won't be returning anytime soon. Have you liked our hospitality so far?" He nodded with part of his suit on the floor and he began to unbutton his black shirt. "Good. See what loyalty gets you handsome?"
"I do Miss Mackenzee." He spoke respectfully. "You've been good to me."
"Their stupid little club didn't deserve to have someone of your skills with them. I hope you understand this stays between us." He nodded and she smiled licking her lips walking up to him bringing her hands up the front of his torso sliding to his chest to his shoulders as she pushed the shirt off them. It slid down his arms and he shook it off them with the shirt falling behind him close enough to the pile. "My my...such define muscles." Kayla kept her hands on his tight black tanked chest looking up to the man's crisp darker blue eyes. Hers had darkened with her intentions. Tell me your name. Tell me who you belong to."
"I belong to you. Agent Gregory Keplur."
"In this room Gregory, call me Kayla."
"Such a beautiful name." He smiled down at her as she rubbed his chest with one hand and he felt her other hand grab his crotch. He groaned when her other hand dropped down to his pants and he felt her start to undo them. "Am I decent sized for you?" He knew what she wanted but he was letting her lead. She was the boss. He dropped his head back grunting when he felt her hand slide into his pants inside of his boxers and grab his throbbing dick.
"Take your pants off undo mine. I want you on your knees when I sit down so you can take my boots off along with them. Then I want your head between my legs Gregory. Your service me and I'll let you know my plans.."
He nor James nor Jeremiah needed to know she'd been the voice to handle every single one of them. It had been her technology, her discovery after killing a martian and draining the blood from the alien's body. Her discovery after dissecting the martian's brain and realizing the potential those abilities could give her. Now, with the imbedded chip she had attached to her cortex and the fuse injections into her vocal cords along with the receptor of her bluetooth microphone she had hidden in her pendant around her neck she could make anyone her loyal little doggy in a matter of minutes.
As she sat down to have this soldier tend to her needs and wants she grinned devilishly with her last thought that wasn't of the gutter, that she was going to enjoy reprogramming the Director of the pathetic DEO. Once she had Alexandra Danvers, if Supergirl was still alive she wouldn't be for long. Kayla looked over to her modified kryptonite sword smiling at the beautiful newly shaped handle. First, her fun. Then….THEIR demise...