Chapter 10
Several hours passed and Cat watched as Kara slept. Alex came into the room with food for the older woman. Cat eyed the tray wearily and Alex smiled. “It’s better than it looks.” She then sat down and sighed. “We’re working on finding the frequency to see if we can find where it’s coming from. The problem is that it’s so high that even dogs don’t hear it. Whoever is doing this knows how high Kryptonians can hear.” She leaned back in her chair as she watched her sister struggling in her sleep.
Cat reached over and squeezed the agent’s arm gently. “I’m sure you’ll figure this out.” What she didn’t say was that she hoped they found it out soon. By the looks of the super cousins, it was only a matter of time before it killed them.
Another hour passed and Cat hadn’t touched her food. She was too worried over her girl to even think of eating. Alex had left when an agent had come in, saying something about being close. The media mogul reached over and gently took Kara’s hand into hers. “You can’t die on me, Kara. The world needs you. I need you.” A single tear fell down her cheek and she closed her eyes. “Please don’t let our first date be our last.”
Alex came running into the room, going over to Cat. “They found the frequency. It’s holding steady but if it goes any higher, it might kill them. Whoever is doing this wants them to suffer.” She strapped a gun to her side and went over to Kara. “I promise I’ll stop this.” She kissed her sister’s forehead. “Stay with her, Cat. We’re going after the bastard who’s behind this.” She then left the room, heading out with a team of agents.
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Black helicopters flew through the desert and towards the pier. Alex sat in the middle seat holding a pistol in one hand and the sensor in the other. Each minute they spent in the air was another minute that Kara and Clark were laid out in pain. She took a deep breath and tried to focus on the mission. As they neared the water, the sensor began going crazy, showing signs of high frequency sounds coming from their intended destination. Alex signaled to the other agents that they had arrived and the copter hovered above what should have been an abandoned building on the water’s edge. Instead, lights streamed out of the recently broken windows that lined the sides of the building.
The agents jumped out and began clearing the roof before heading for the access point. Alex took lead as her team followed her down the stairs and into the brightly lit building. When they opened the stairwell door, they found an almost completely empty building save for a car sized machine in the middle of the room. Above it all ran a catwalk that led from the stairway. Alex split her team, sending half around one way, and leading the rest around the other way. The two groups flanked the machine from above and each visually cleared the building below for signs of life.
Disappointed that whoever did this seemed to get away, Alex decided to take this easy victory. She sent down her engineer to disable the machine. The rest were aimed and ready to fire if anyone showed up.
But no one did. The machine was easy to shut down and it looked as if no one had been there since turning it on earlier that day. The engineer cleared it and removed key parts so it couldn’t be used again between now and them being able to get a truck out there to remove it.
Alex called it in, greated by the relieved voice of her boss. “We did it, Sir. The machine was disabled.”
“Good work, Agent Danvers.” J’onn smiled from the control room. “Now come on home. I’m sure there’s someone who would like to thank you.”