"It's finished." Kara said and pushed herself away from the controls. "Want to be there when he wakes up again?"

At her side, Danette Railly nodded her head. The android wore civilian clothes, but she had cut her hair short and had a haunted look on her face.

With the Morrow android's knowledge, Kara had managed to reactivate both Red Torpedo and Firebrand, the first wanted nothing to do with superheroes, while the second was… complicated.

Danette had woken up startled, thinking she was still back in 1945 having just taken a shot meant for Flash. Finding out she was currently more than sixty years in the future had been hard, finding out she was an android, even harder.

The young woman was confused, distraught and highly emotional, refusing to meet anyone and keeping close to Red Torpedo since Kara had reactivated him.

The old man was another story. Dr. Lockhart had an entire human life of experiences to draw upon in order to calm himself, a lifetime as a doctor, where he had faced death and grief quite a few times. He also had nearly a month of time to think about his new situation, even if that time was under Prof. Morrow's control.

He had acted as a touchstone to Danette, but really, he wanted nothing more than to go back to his normal life, to the point that he had begged Kara to reapply his synthetic skin as soon as possible, he also wanted to look old instead of returning to his prime.

Although, he did ask Kara to modify the part of his programming that gave him arthritis, apparently, he wouldn't miss that part of being old.

The two of them quickly entered the operating room to find Dr. Lockhart just as he was putting on his coat. "How do you feel?"

"Old, grumpy, strange. Thanks." The old man grumbled and nodded towards her. "I don't think I'll ever be the same again but… it's good to be able to at least pretend to be human again."

"I could give you the pain back if you want, or the deteriorating vision, for realism?" Kara offered with a smirk.

"No thanks." The old man combed his gray hairs and then looked at Dannete. "Thanks for keeping me company, didn't think I'd have a family at my age."

"Seventy isn't that old brother." Dannete said and shrugged.

"I'll go prepare the teleport. You two can talk, but try not to take too long, I don't want to be here for much longer." Kara said as she started to walk away.

"Humph, supervillains and moon bases, I'm too old for this shit."

Making an effort not to listen, Kara walked towards the teleport room on her moon base and started getting it ready. Since she had last been here, the moon base had grown from a single room into a moderately sized house.

With Lobo still after her, Kara hadn't dared to come here alone. The man was known as one of the best bounty hunters in the galaxy, and one capable of tracking his prey anywhere, but, with Dr. Lockhart begging her, she had decided to take the chance.

All of her advances on the synthetic skin and touch receptors had stayed on the ship after all, as well as her supply of the materials needed. In truth, it's not like the Fortress couldn't replicate it, but it would take time and resources best used elsewhere.

Kara decided that the short trip wouldn't be too risky and, even if Lobo could track her there, she had her Armor now, as well as Red Torpedo and Firebrand.

Still, the base's location was supposed to be kept secret, so Kara had installed a device that blocked any signals from coming or going from the location, and the lack of communications was leaving her anxious.

She still had her miniature portal creator integrated into the armor, so it wasn't as if she couldn't call for help if it was truly needed. In a way, she was safer here than at her own house, it just didn't feel that way.

Kara caught herself tapping her feet against the floor and had to forcefully stop herself, then she started again. Crossing her arms, Kara glanced towards the interior of her base and couldn't help but activate her X-Ray vision, catching sight of Danette and Dr. Lockhart approaching before releasing a breath.

It had only taken three hours to install the new touch receptors and coat the old man in his synthetic skin, but Kara regretted every second of it, she should have just dealt with his complaints and waited for the Fortress to create the necessary facilities.

The three of them stepped into the teleportation device and Kara pressed the button, in a flash of light, they appeared back into the Fortress, Kara's armor reconnected with her communication network and she stumbled.

Several warnings started blaring into her head, on instinct, Kara jumped away and released her drones. The majority of the drones formed a defensive barrier around her, while others became weapons aiming at everything around them, ready for the ambush.

There wasn't any.

Her heart beating in her mouth, Kara took the time to look around and found the Fortress empty, then she glanced at the warnings on her armor and cursed.

"What happened?" Danette yelled, a ball of blue flames above one hand while the other held a barely contained field of plasma in the shape of a sword.

"Sorry, it's not here." Kara waved her away and dropped back to the ground.

It took her two seconds to read everything, it seems like the light had discovered her takeover of CADMUS and decided to raid the place. With the wave of a finger, Kara connected to Erin, the G-Elf in charge of communications.

The second Erin answer Kara started yelling. "What's the situation?!"

"Miss Kara, it's-it was…" The G-Elf swallowed and Kara could hear the yelling on the background.

"One of you, help him!" Guardian was shouting.

"We-We don't know how! Genomorphs that showed defects were either repurposed or put into a healing tank, without the equipment we can…"

Kara didn't wait to hear more, turning towards Dr. Lockhart, she asked. "Do you know how to operate someone? Ever worked on an alien or mutant?"

"Yes and Yes. I had to operate on a meta-human before retiring, but he was still mostly human." The old man grumbled and squinted at her.

"Good enough. Erin, use the platform to bring them to the Fortress, even if I can't cure them, I can put them in stasis here." Grabbing Dr. Lockhart by the arm, Kara dragged him through the Fortress and towards the main room, Danette following closely behind her.

AS they walked, Kara thought about what to do, she needed more information. Digging into the data sent her way, she found the video Dubbilex sent and watched it as fast as she could manage.

Ra's al Ghul, Brain, Ocean-Master and Lex Luthor were at CADMUS, they were all together at CADMUS without Klarion. Fuck, why did Dubbilex stop her from putting a bomb on the facility for self destruction? It would be so easy.

Right, the collateral damage.

Haphazardly collapsing 52 floors in the middle of Washington could kill a lot of people, and Kara just hadn't had the time to make the necessary calculations, or preparations to make it safe.

Still, she could get them all!

With a flash of light, the large teleportation platform appeared in the middle of the Fortress front entrance, the only place big enough for it at the moment.

On top of the platform, a giant G-Troll was collapsed to her knees, large wounds bleeding all over her body, for a moment, Kara didn't recognize the G-Troll, then she saw her face and realized it was Karen, the gentle genomorphs who liked to read fiction.

Beside her, Guardian was kneeling together with a black woman, both of their hands were soaked with blood as they tried to keep Dubbilex from dying.

"Alright, let me see!" Dr. Lockhart yelled and jumped up the platform, taking Guardian's place.

"What happened?" Kara asked the clone as she approached. "There wasn't supposed to be any fighting!"

"Brain was able to disable most of our defenses, we had to delay them to get everyone out and Ocean-Master managed one last hit on Dubbilex." Guardian said and squeezed his hands in anger, taking his helmet off of his head, he threw it down on the floor with all his strength.

"Was Klarion there?" Kara asked, grabbing the man's shoulders and shaking him. "Was he there or just the four of them?"

"Four? No, the league of Assassins was there, but I only saw Ra's, Brain and Ocean-Master from the leaders."

"Good. Take care of him." Kara turned towards the Zeta-Tube. With her armor, she was pretty sure she could take care of all of them, even Ocean-Master wouldn't be a challenge outside of the water. She froze in place right before activating the Zeta-bean. "Fuck! Fuck, fuck, FUCK!"

As fast as she could, Kara called Red Arrow's phone. Thinking a little about it, she also called Green Arrow's phone, both his hero and personal ones.

While the call was going through, Kara sent a message towards Kal. She wrote as fast as her computers could handle, informing her cousin of the raid on CADMUS and the fact the villains were still there, sending the message off, she made a copy and sent It to Kori and Batman as well.

"Kara?" Green Arrow answered his heroic phone first.

"Where is Red Arrow?"

Green Arrow sensed the haste in her voice and didn't ask anything. "He told me he had an operation, I offered to help, but he said he could do it alone."

"Where?" Kara almost yelled at the phone.

"He didn't tell me, wait I'm gonna activate a tracker." Kara heard the man running through his own arrow cave, acting as fast as he could. "What's going on?"

"The Light just raided CADMUS, Green Arrow, they know someone's found Roy." Kara said while gritting her teeth, her feet tapping against the floor at super speed until she had to stop herself from damaging the Zeta-Tube.

"Shit, Fuck, he's in Infinity Island!" The man shouted.

"Send me his location." Kara waited, a few seconds later, she had Red Arrow's location on her display and, a second later, she activated the Zeta-Tube and teleported away. The closest Zeta-Tube to Infinity Island was in Miami, from there, Kara flew directly south as fast as she could.

She could be overthinking things but, if the Light suspected CADMUS enough to organize a raid, they probably had someone ready to capture or eliminate Red Arrow as soon as they confirmed he was a liability.

As she approached the island, Kara made sure to activate her own tracker and start broadcasting her location towards the Justice League, making sure the anti-jammer was activated the entire time, even if it wasted a lot of resources.

At her speed, it would only take a few minutes to reach the location, Kara spent that time reading about the location. Turns out that Infinity Island was actually a sovereign island on the Caribbean Sea, the place was the suspected home of Ra's al Ghul, but nobody could prove it, and the island refused entry to the Justice League. Not that she cared.

A new warning almost caused her to stumble. It seems like Red Arrow's emergency teleport had activated, Kara almost released a breath of relief, but then she noticed the tracked still on infinity island.

Taking a second, she connected to the Mountain's security system and used its cameras to look at the video, there, trembling against one of the mountain's walls, was a young woman of around twenty, wearing a lab coat covered in blood. "Rao damn it!"

Suddenly, she stopped herself over a military complex, it was filled with armed guards and its walls were protected with some layer of lead, just like Prof. Morrow's headquarters. Her display immediately caused her to curse, the building was actually owned by the government.

A closer look at the guards revealed that, the vast majority of them were just soldiers, with only one being recognized as part of the League of Assassins. Rao, they may not even know for who they were working, just following orders.

Kara was unwilling to just kill them, it would make her job easier, but she didn't want to resort to murder, not when they didn't deserve it. Glancing at the tracker still active, she saw it going deeper and deeper into the building.

"Shit, that's not good." Kara didn't know whose blood had been on the scientist's coat but, if it was from Red Arrow, he probably didn't have too long without medical attention. Kara didn't have the time to be careful. "Shock and awe it is."

Releasing thousands of drones from her armor, Kara ordered them to spread around the fortress, they'd cover her retreat later, if it was necessary, but she didn't have time to wait.

Taking one last look at Red Arrow's location, Kara saw he was actually already underground. Taking a deep breath, she let herself drop, a second later, she accelerated. Kara hit a spot of jungle two hundred meters away from the fortress with so much strength she created a crater, sending pieces of trees flying high in the sky, but not hitting anybody.

She continued to move down for a few meters, the earth only offering minimal resistance, when she reached the same height as Red Arrow's tracker, Kara turned back towards the fortress and moved.

She broke through the fortress underground walls only a hundred meters away from Red Arrow, Kara still couldn't see through the walls but, with the signal there, she knew the general direction.

Kara didn't dare go too fast lest she kill anyone in the way, instead, she just walked towards the signal, bursting through the concrete and metal walls as if they weren't even there. Her armor gave her enough protection that she just ignored anyone in her way.

Usually, she wouldn't dare take a bullet for fear of it being made from kryptonite or enhanced with magic, but no kryptonite could go through her protection, and she wasn't as paranoid as to fear a kryptonite bullet enhanced with just the right spell to pierce it.

Suddenly, the lights around the bunker cut off, Kara broke through a new wall and found herself in an empty large room, using her improved vision, she saw a single man standing in the other end of the room, cutting off her progress towards Red Arrow.

The man wore a large purple robe and a cowl with golden details, Kara lifted her gun and shot him in the face.

"Well, that was unexpected, I believe that answers the question of you being a hero." Came the mocking laugh from all around the room. The image of the man didn't disappear and, instead, multiplied into three as purple fire ignited all around the place, encircling Kara's location.

"I hate magic." She grumbled, only making the enemy laugh harder, Kara analyzed her enemy and thought about DC's villains, mainly the ones who worked with the Light. "Felix Faust I presume?"

"The same, you know, you're currently keeping me away from something very important right now." The Magician said as all three copies of him started spreading around the room. Kara activated all surveillance systems in her armor, but even they seemed unable to locate the man. "Usually, that would be truly terrible for you, but I am in a hurry, so I'll finish this quickly."

A magical circle appeared in front of each copy and shot her with a bolt of lightning, Kara just used her speed to step aside, letting the attack pass harmlessly by, at her shoulders, several of her drones connected to her armor, forming three small weapons and shooting each clone once.

Kara didn't believe the enemy was one of them, but it didn't hurt to check. "A third rate magician like you can't stop me."

In answer, hundreds of purple magic circles formed all around the room, shooting a barrage of magical lightning towards her. Using her speed, Kara dodged the attacks as deftly as she could.

The magical attacks weren't as fast as true lightning, but they were still incredibly fast, and incredibly powerful, causing explosions everywhere they hit. Kara waved between them with superhuman speed, using the Nth metal in her hands to dispel the worst of it with her punches, but the barrage showed no signs of stopping.

Some of the lightning bolts hit her armor and were dispersed, but Kara had to lift an eyebrow at just how effective they were, her armor was made to withstand Superman's levels of strength, it should have shrugged off anything Faust could throw at her.

Unfortunately, it wasn't, the magician was actually far more powerful than she expected and, while the armor took the blows, its AI quickly warned her that the attack would eventually overwhelm her protections.

Then the situation changed, the purple circles started moving and layering themselves, instead of hundreds she was now faced with 66 circles, but they were triple layered and hit about ten times harder while moving trice as fast.

Kara dodged as a bolt exploded against the ground and pierced all the way through the concrete, showing her the lower floor. On reflex, she retreated, dodging a second bolt and punching a third, dispelling its magic with the Nth metal in her gloves.

Rao, how she wished she had enough of the metal to make an entire armor. She doubted there was so much of the metal on the entire planet, but it was a nice goal.

Clearly, this wasn't working, protecting her head and chest with her arms, Kara ordered some of her drones to form into shields in front of her. They quickly gathered into little hexagons and started projecting energy shields around her, each one was only enough to block two or three bolts, but they still gave her enough time to concentrate on something else instead of just dodging.

Turning off the sound filter on her armor, Kara started paying attention, five seconds later, she turned towards a corner and shot it, repeatedly. Felix Faust's illusion was powerful, but it hadn't been able to block the sound of his own heart beating.

THe illusion around her was gone, as well as half of the magical circles, the other half had turned into a shield around Felix, protecting him from her weapon. Without wasting any more time, Kara flew towards him, tanking five of the blows before punching his face in.

Kara didn't hold back, it wasn't the time, her nth metal gauntlets broke through the shield and hit him in the face, sending the man flying back until he smashed his back against the wall, broke through and only then stopped.

Her armor AI warned her of critical damage done to her right leg, the armor had lost mobility there, but Kara didn't actually need the armor's help to move, so she just disabled the notification and started using her own strength to move the limb. Seeing Faust intact body, she frowned.

"What?" Kara looked down at her hands, with the Nth metal dispelling his protection, she had expected the magician to explode, instead he was left bleeding, but clearly alive. "How the hell are you alive?"

"Foolish, my new master has given me power beyond imagining!" Faust crackled, laughing like mad as purple flames gathered around him. "Interesting you should mention hell, perhaps it's time you face it."

With a wave of his hands, Faust threw the fire to the ground, causing large cracks to spread through the floor from which lava spewed out; from the cracks, two clawed hands burst out, a second later, a single demon pulled itself free and looked around.

The creature seemed to have yellow skin with fur-like covering, it was incredibly muscular and had two small dark horns on top of its head, wearing red armor with a green cape. The creature's red eyes looked at Kara and frowned.

"Come, you will not keep me from my goal!" Screamed Faust before dissenting into mad laughter, purple flames gathered around his body and started healing his wounds.

Kara squinted at the new enemy, the demon cracked his neck and smiled, she didn't like that smile.

Yeah, speaking of goals, Kara didn't dare move lest she restart the fight, but she made one of her drones look at the hole one of Faust's bolts had made into the floor and saw it wasn't some kind of hell dimension, just the lower floor.

Kara made her decision, her goal here wasn't to deal with Faust, it had never been and it was a mistake to even start, plus, that demon looked far too much like Etrigan for her liking.

Before anything else could be said, Kara broke through the floor, then flew towards Red Arrow's tracker, with enemies behind her, she no longer had the luxury of caring about collateral damage, not to the Light's minions at least.

She broke through the walls in a straight line, hearing the demon following after her. The creature was slower than her and couldn't fly, but he didn't have to break through walls.

Finally, Kara burst through a cave revealing eight assassins dressed in dark clothes, they were led by an extremely beautiful woman of olive skin and one of them carried Red Arrow's limp form between them.

As soon as Kara appeared, the woman lifted a hand, revealing a remote control device. Kara hesitated, then she was punched, hard. Her armored body flew and hit the wall, causing the entire cave to shake.

The demon was just about to pounce on her when Felix appeared on the wall, floating on top of a pentagram. "Stop, I wish to enjoy this."

"Why?" The demon asked, his voice so deep it rumbled through the cave.

"Our goal is already met, I had no idea it was right here, but this makes things much easier." Felix said and had a wide smile on his face.

Kara frowned, she really didn't like the way Felix was talking, and she had no intention of believing he wouldn't get involved, but she'd take any time he gave her to think.

"Very well." The demon nodded. "My task was to obey you, if you fail, it will be your soul forfeit to the Lord."

Kara looked back at the woman. The assassin still held the remote control on her hand, but she was now frowning towards Felix, causing Kara to think there was a classic case of backstabbing going on.

Still, she didn't want to get involved. "Give me Red Arrow and I'll leave." She told the woman. "You can deal with whatever this is then."

The woman, who Kara thought to be Tallia al Ghul, seemed conflicted for a few seconds, then took a breath and turned towards her. "You avoided any casualties, making sure even our agents weren't hurt, if you approach, you'll never see him again."

Kara looked at the woman's nervous face, then back at Felix's delight. "What are you gonna do, kill him?" Kara looked with all of her senses and, seeing as they were all completely normal humans, snorted. "If you kill him, I'll make sure to eliminate everyone here, even if the demon tries to interfere, just the aftermath of our fight will be enough to kill you if I don't try to stop it. I think the life of Ra's al Ghul's daughter is far more valuable than a single sidekick."

She would do it too, the demon punched harder than her, but not by that much. Kara was pretty sure she could take him if it came to it, and Faust, even as strong as he seemed, just wasn't in her league without a prepared battlefield.

Then Felix burst out laughing again, causing Kara to think about the situation. Why hadn't Talia put a blade to Red Arrow's throat or threatened to stab him in the heart? What was that remote control for?

Looking around the room, she finally caught sight of the pit, she also sa the explosive charges laid all around it and her heart sank.

Felix Faust crackled like mad, almost bending over with laughter. "It's truly amusing, you really think the boy is still alive!"