Chapter 7

One day after school, Jefferson decided to do some digging on vice principal Fowdy, since he wanted to see if she was still working for the ASA in this universe like she had before.

That was why, once he was sure she was gone for the night, he used his powers to turn off all surveillance cameras in the office, since he knew that the ASA had definitely planted surveillance in the office before sitting down at Fowdy's computer and using his powers to boot it and bypass her firewalls to confirm that she still worked for the ASA.

Jefferson quickly pulled out his phone and called Gambi.

"Jeff, what's up?" Gambi asked.

"Gambi, I don't think we'll need to work with Tobias after all." Jefferson said.

"What do you mean?" Gambi asked.

"Can you establish an uplink with Kara Fowdy's computer?" Jefferson asked.

"Of course, she worked under Proctor. I can't tap into her files remotely, at least not without the ASA knowing I'm doing it." Gambi said.

"So what do we do?" Jefferson asked.

"I said I couldn't access it remotely. But, I'll head over there now and clone her hard drive manually. Once we have that, we should be able to determine Proctor's base of operations in Freeland, then we can start reconiotoring it. But Jeff, even so, we'll still need reinforcements and other information that will require reaching out to Tobias and the 100." Gambi said.

"I know, but still, now, if we can infiltrate Proctor's base, we can find something that will give us a real bargaining chip to bring Tobias to the table, since we both know he'd rather put a bullet in me then work with me." Jefferson said.

"Fair point. I'll be there shortly." Gambi said as he hung up.

"What's going on?" Jen asked as she, Anissa and Lynn met her father and Gambi in the Sanctum.

"We made our first move to take down the ASA." Jefferson said.

"What do you mean?" Anissa asked.

"I remembered that my vice principal is actually a spotter for the ASA. Gambi planted a bug on her computer so we have access to all of her files, including those related to the ASA." Jefferson said.

"Right, so you're hoping that those files can give us something to bring down the ASA." Anissa said.

"More like a location on Martin Proctor's base of operations, since my intel says that Odell is currently in Gotham. We need to take down Proctor in order to draw him here." Gambi said.

"Wait, Gotham, I think I might know someone who can help us keep tabs on him." Jefferson said.

"Who?" Anissa asked.

"When I was working with those other heroes, one of them was the hero of Gotham." Jefferson said.

"Wait, you know Batman?" Jen asked.

"No, but I know who replaced him. Batwoman. Kate Kane. I'll make some calls, see if she'd be willing to help us keep tabs on Odell while he's in Gotham." Jefferson said.

"Cool. And the Bat is a woman now? Talk about feminism." Anissa said and Jen rolled her eyes.

"When are you going to introduce us to all these heroes you know now right?" Jen asked and Jefferson rolled his eyes.

"Eventually, yes." Jefferson promised.

"Anyways, back to this, how long until you have a location?" Lynn asked.

"Well, while I've broken through the standard encryptions that Fowdy has on her computer to make it seem like an ordinary school computer, I'm still working on accessing the hidden hard drive protocol to access all the files regarding the ASA. It'll take awhile, though I may know someone who can help." Gambi said.

"Who?" Anissa asked.

"Anissa, remember who helped us send out that message about the ASA?" Gambi asked.

"That meta TC? What about him?" Anissa asked.

"He's a pod kid." Gambi said.

"Wait, who's TC?" Jefferson asked.

"He's a meta with the ability to talk to anything electronic. A useful skill for what we're trying to do. And since we know where the pods are, I can whip up some cloaking tech to get us in so we can get him out of the pod to help us." Gambi said.

"Okay, there are a few flaws with that plan." Lynn said.

"What?" Jen asked.

"The first one is that TC doesn't have his memories of the old multiverse, which means that he won't trust us right away." Lynn said.

"That can be solved with a quick call to J'onn." Jefferson pointed out.

"But more importantly, TC is an unstable meta. Until I can recreate the stabilization serum, we can't risk letting him out of the pod without risking him dying." Lynn said.

"Well, maybe we can find a work around so that you can create the serum without Tobias." Jefferson said.

"Jeff, that won't be easy." Lynn said.

"Except, you're no longer the only metahuman specialist on this earth. I'm sure that the Flash has someone who can help you with that." Jefferson said and Lynn nodded.

"Okay, we should start making arrangements. Jen, Anissa, we already know where the pod kids are being held, so you two should run reconnaissance on it, since we need to not only get TC, but the rest of the pod kids out of the ASA's hold. Jeff, see if that Flash kid can help us find a place to keep them until we can stabilize them." Gambi said and they all nodded.


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