In omni re vincit imitationem Veritas- [Kara]

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"In everything truth surpasses its imitation or copy" Marcus Tullius Cicero



There were whispers in Metropolis, a quiet undercurrent of murmurs throughout the city regarding the lack of official information regarding what was only called "The Teaboro Incident." Each retelling was spoken only in horror, of the monster that came from beneath the Earth, the way that it transformed people to mush, absorbing them in a horrific orgy of skin and bone, growing into a monstrosity until over 200 men, women and child had died. Whispers came of how Superman had saved them all, and only Whispers. In the vast ocean of Metropolitan Citizenry it was little more than a drop. Photographs had supposedly surfaced in the first day or so, but were shady and blurry. Nothing close to the creature had been taken. One video had surfaced, but it was inconclusive, and  any other videos were little more than rumors, relegated to the dark spots of the internet. Witness accounts had been reported, but now there were none. Not one news story, the police reports were missing, and all video recordings of Teaboro at that time had disappeared, marked Classified. But the dead remained dead, the families tearful, and even then only the whispering remnants of a rumor.

There were giants in Metropolis, there were monsters out of nightmares, they hid under the subways, they were invisible, they were from space. . . Superman had brought them, they were made by LexCorp, they were coming for the children, the Government Knew about it and wanted it covered up, there were Bioweapons, Kryptonian perhaps? God knows they'd never been there BEFORE Superman came. Don't be stupid, Superman is here to save us! But what if that were a ruse? What if he was only saving us from terrors he brought? Did monsters attack Metropolis before Superman? 

What if nothing was going on at all? Obviously if something real happened there'd be more than a single shaky cellphone video on the internet, half remembered memories and whispers. The video had been horrific, a giant thing that just touched a person, and absorbed them. Teeth on its skin, boiling with eyes and constant gibbering screams. The video had been taken from the top of a building over a mile away on an old 8mm camera, nothing digital, or so they'd said. It had thrown things into further confusion. The monster was there in the street, from underground. . . Superman had saved them, came in and picked up the creature. He was unaffected. Was he behind it? Was it Kryptonian technology? Was it an alien? Was it a bioweapon? Why had Lex Luthor come to investigate? 

Why didn't he deny the situation when asked? Why did he only say "Any situation involving unknown meta-events or bioweapons is currently under investigation." Why were there so many rumors on the streets about Superman, and why was there no evidence?

Questions. Nothing but questions without answers, there had been joy and happiness when Kara flew over Metropolis before. There still was, but then again, there was still the sidewards glance, the inevitable and quiet "if" that sat in the back of the mind of certain metropolitan citizens that was growing. 

The area of Teaboro was blocked off as the crews repaired the torn up roads. Remnants of destruction had been there, although officially it was seen as "scheduled road repair" and little more. Whispers throughout the city. Rumors. . . 

Until today, the rumors had been general, not specific towards anything in particular. But now a single voice was heard among the cacophany, audible to superior Kryptonian hearing: "We've moved the Teaboro project, all of the research, all of the supplies, all of the samples. The bioweapon was moved into the facility underneath Metropolis General Hospital. There are more than adequate subjects there for further testing."

A response "Metropolis has ears, they could be listening even now. Wait until we get inside. . . "

The first voice "The Alien isn't here, he's in Japan dealing with some volcano. We're fine"

The response "I didn't know Japan was still volcanically active."

The first voice "Everyone knows that Japan is still active. The entire island chain is based on volcanic activity. It's how the hot springs keep warm. I went there on my honeymoon, they've got these hot baths, Onii-chans. . . " 

The response from the second voice "I thought that was something else." 

The first voice "No, they're called Onii-chans. I went there on my honeymoon, so I should know . . . " 

Then the voices faded out, muffled as they walked inside somewhere with baffling technologies.

[Kara Zor-El - Supergirl]

Kara had been left in charge during the times of Kal's absence. Which usually would not take him more the seconds to get back if he really wanted to. Though is something was occupying him or a battle taking him longer, Kara was there for back up. It could be an argument of who was faster the Flash or the Supers.

Kara could out do her counter part. Her cousin had not been exposed as long on Krypton as she had growing up there. The meteor had slowed down her cellular process as she had been send to Earth in order to watch over Kal. Though the shoe was on the other foot now it seemed. Kara had come to Earth about three years ago when she was fifteen. And over the past few years she had learned how to control her powers further and further as time went on.

And now flying over Metropolis, she could hear the voices of many. Words that mostly had little to no use to her when it came to trying to detect any trouble.

It was then flying over the skyline that her hearing picked up the words, Teaboro project. That was not a good sign at all. And listening closely she could hear where it was taking place, Using her super hearing she followed the found of the voices until they became muffled. They must had lead surroundings.

None the less, she had a trail and was going in. She'd take a more steady approach than breaking through the city streets. Kal had warned her on causing too much unnecessary damage to the city. And she chalked this one up to being unnecessary since she could easily get there in moments from the second their conversation became muffled.

Kara found her way underground and wasn't going to play nice about this. These projects where the problems that grew and she wasn't going to let them grow. She catch it at it's source this time.

And Supergirl's style was more of attack first then ask questions. She wasn't all that quiet when she came in and she'd live up to it at that time.

Rushing in head first, she used her super strength to break through the holding of the place to the source. "Anyone care to tell me more about theses little plans," Supergirl spoke up as she broke through the wall.

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The wall tore with great ease, as if it were paper at the hands of Kara Zor-el, and it might as well have been. Steel and concrete and shale were as nothing to her sun-drenched might. As one of the most powerful creatures on the planet, she could, at a whim crack the crust of the planet, plunge the core of the Earth into ice, push and shift the entire globe out of orbit, slow or speed its turn, fly into orbit, or destroy all that existed on its surface. She could hear the splitting of an atom from low earth orbit, she could see through walls. The walls were nothing before her might.

The people in labcoats on the other side were shocked for a moment, pausing before one woman screamed. Then it was pandemonium. Alarms began to go off, there was a faint hissing sound as pipes were burst, loud sirens, red lights, metallic sheathes were starting to lower from the ceiling and rise from the floor around the glass tubes, covering them with some sort of armor, whatever was in it was blocking Kara's x-ray vision. The interior of the room was a mess of concrete and glass walls, a scientific enclave of some sort. A few of the people in lab coats were running. The interior of the vats appeared to have figures growing inside them, some of them hovering and hanging in place. Human figures. Nearby were people lying down on tables, breathing tubes in their mouths, tubes in their arms, almost hung in place as if a mixture of machine and man. At first glance, some appeared to have robotic arms and legs. 

What the hell was going on in here? Medical experiments? Cloning? Biological horrors? The room was large, and through the outer layer it was clear that the hallways extended backwards and outwards into wings, numerous elevators to the surface into the building above, some large nodes in the center, one node leading deeper underground, a lot of the hallways meeting into a central ring, with a central hub in the middle of the ring that looked like an important room. The building above was, in fact Metropolis General Hospital. The individuals in lab coats were screaming although a number of subjects were left in place. A few of the people in labcoats were detaching some of them, pulling them away, people were swarming into the room now. In military style fatigues and body armor, holding weapons, the LexCorp logo on their chests. A woman shouts out "FREEZE!" as the guards leveled their weapons on her. They were afraid, they were shaking. One of them had a heartbeat that was far too fast, shaking.

"She's got laser eyes! SHE'S LOOKING AT ME!" He shouted, and fired his weapon. The bullet ricocheted off of Kara's chest lodging into the concrete of the wall. And then another guard fired, and then the rest started to. The weapons were a mix of standard chemical slugthrowers, hurling bullets ineffectively at Kara's body, ricocheting off into the walls, equipment and the armored tubing. Some of the shots were made of some sort of superheated plasma, some from targeted lasers. Turrets were starting to lower from the ceiling.

Kara could see in the distance in the hallway a group of more armored individuals were running, they had rather mean looking weapons on them. That would be the LexCorps, obviously. For a moved facility, it certainly seemed well stocked. It was almost quite surprising, considering how they were talking about the project being moved here recently, but then again, Kara would know that Lex Luthor had a number of facilities throughout Gotham, the Shale under the city was littered with hidden bases, complexes, old tunnels and lairs, and almost all of them were connected to LexCorp in one way or another. 

[Kara Zor-El - Supergirl]

Supergirl annoyed within seconds at the scramble of the people in the lab. The woman screaming, alarming starting to go off. Really? She rolled her eyes. Of course they would react like this. She should have known. A superhero breaking in with superhuman strength.

Though as soon as her eyes gazed over the scene before her, she was disgust by what she saw. Regardless of them being humans, no one should treat their own kind in such a way. She saw the many bodies within the tubes being tested upon. And the bodies or those laying out, awaiting to become the next experiences for this lab.

Sometimes, humans could be so sick. The way they treat each other sometimes out weighed what the aliens who come to capture this planet would do. It wasn't right and it was down right sickening. Not something you wanted to display to Supergirl.

Then things just got even better. Military dressed people came into the room. With ease, Supergilr could see the Luthor logo on the uniforms. Great. And then the guns were pulled out....really? Haven't people learned by now that the Kryptonians where invincible against such a weapon. Apparently these people haven't been on the internet for some time. Must be too busy playing with the test tubs in the labs.

Once again, Supergirl rolled her eyes in annoyance over the comments and actions towards her. These people were destroying their own lab. And this was easy to see as the ceiling started to make some lovely sounds. Looking up Supergirl could see the building over head...there was a hospital.

She couldn't let the ceiling cave in regardless of the sick experiments going on down there. She could even see another group os soldiers heading her way. Great.

Supergirl flew up toward the ceiling and sated to grab hold of some of the lines. Using her laser vision, she started to wield some of the loss bits together to prevent a possible cave in with a hospital over head.

"Tell me where Luthor is, or this place with be buried and everyone with it!" Supergirl said aggressively.