Chapter 11

"What is it?" Alex looked at Kelly. Her girlfriend had come back to the group and looked like she was going to be sick.

"Kelly?" Kara heard the concern in her sister's voice and turned around from the computer screen. Brainy was fast forwarding to a part of the video where he believed the kidnappers had screwed up.

"The phone number. Marie had a note written next to it," Kelly started.

"It's one of your former coworkers, isn't it?" Kara knew that it could be the only thing that would upset her so much.

"It's Matt," Kelly admitted.

"He plays a good con if it truly was him. Lied right to my face," Nyssa frowned.

"Well, you do have a concussion," Kara reminded her.

"No excuse," the former leader of the League of Assassins said.

"If he was in the black car, would Marie get in it?" Alex wondered.

"He's a coworker. Either she knew that something was up with him or they made it seem like they would hurt him. Certainly, enough of a reason. Since we know he's been seen in person since then… I'd say the former," Kara shook her head.

"If Marie knew he was dirty, why get in the car then?" J'onn spoke up.

"Perhaps they gave a reason we haven't thought of. They seem to want to blame Lena for their sabotage. Who could they really be working for?" M'gann asked.

"That's what bothers me. They could have stolen a license plate off an L Corp car and put it on their own," Kara said.

"So, are we maybe looking at another enemy of Kate? L Corp would certainly make a good patsy," Nia figured.

"Here's the part of the video…" Brainy's announcement took everyone's attention back to the screen. They watched as people exited the vehicle at a traffic light. The vehicle then sped away from the curb, blowing through a red light. Nyssa was the first to speak,

"Back that up and slow it down." Brainy did as he was told and the video played slowly.

"Is that…?" Nyssa turned to Kara.

"A bunch of swear words I cannot say," the blonde said under her breath.

"Yeah, that's her," Nyssa chuckled at her friend's comment.

"Who exactly are we looking at?" M'gann was confused at the exchange.

"I have to make a phone call," was all Kara could say before ducking out of the room.

"Brainy, you picked out this moment, why?" Nyssa asked before she would answer the White Martian.

"Obviously for different reasons than you picked out," he started. He pointed out the red light.

"The car blew through the red-light camera. NCPD has probably issued the vehicle a traffic ticket. My guess is that they only swapped the rear plate for the L Corp vehicle. The front plate… not so much. So, I searched the NCPD database for the ticket issued. I had the date, time, car make and model. I also had the L Corp plate in case they had managed to switch both plates. It took me a little bit but I was able to find out the car was a rental. The address that was given was a motel down by the water. Not far from where they found that body," Brainy explained.

"Could the guy be one of the ones from the car?" Nyssa asked.

"Could be. I alerted ARGUS and they said they'd look into it," he said.

"And the woman?" M'gann pressed.

"That is Kate's stepsister, Mary," J'onn filled them in.

To Be Continued…