Chapter 30
While Alex was resting, Kara decided to take Clark and his family to see the Tower, especially since she'd already shown Courtney, so it was only fair that she showed her biological cousin too, especially since she wanted his sons to see that her clubhouse was way cooler than anything their dad had shown them.
"Okay, why did you bring us to J'onn's office?" Clark asked Kara after she led him, Lois, Jonathan and Jordan into J'onn's office.
"Because of this." Kara said with a smirk as she slid her ring on and walked up to the false wall and used her ring to reveal the secret elevator.
"Wait, you have a secret elevator?" Jonathan asked in shock as he and Jordan raced each other to get inside first.
"Show off." Lois said with a smirk as she and Clark got into the elevator as well.
"Please, like you and Clark didn't do the same thing when you showed them the Fortress." Kara said as she joined them before the doors closed.
"He did with Jordan, but not with me, since he showed me the fortress separately." Jon said.
"And I still don't know why he didn't show it to you both at the same time, since it's just as much your birthright as it is Jordan's." Kara said, since she'd always been particularly close with Jon.
"It was right after Jordan's powers surfaced and at the time we didn't think that Jon had any, since his super intelligence hadn't appeared yet." Clark said.
"No excuse. Especially since I'm the one who had to listen to Jon complaining about it." Kara said with a smirk.
"Wait, what?" Lois asked, looking at her son.
"You and dad were paying so much attention to Jordan that sometimes it felt like I fell through the cracks. Aunt Kara was there for me and was usually the person I'd go to when I needed someone." Jonathan said.
"And he didn't tell you because he didn't want either of you to feel guilty about neglecting him, even though you probably should." Kara said.
"And we do and we'll talk more about this later, especially since you've kind of been Jordan's keeper with how he's been behaving lately." Clark said as he and Lois both gave Jordan looks that he shrunk at, right as the elevator opened.
"Welcome to the Tower." Kara said as she showed them into her new secret base.
"Wow, this place is incredible." Jon said, his inner geek coming out.
"Yep. J'onn and Brainy combined a lot of different kinds of alien technologies to create this place, including martian and coluan technology." Kara said as she showed them around.
"Nice set up." Lois said, since this place was impressive.
"Thank you. But I didn't bring you guys here just to show off my base, I actually brought you here so that we could go over the data your kryptonite suit gathered from your last fight with Lex." Kara said and both Clark and Lois were very eager to do so.
"Great, because that lexosuit was way more advanced than any model I've fought before and I want to know how he got it that advanced." Clark said as the elevator opened again and this time, Lena walked out of it and she had Krypto with her, since Kara had asked her girlfriend to pick up her dog from her apartment and bring Krypto to the Tower to meet the rest of Clark's family.
"Krypto." Clark said with a smile as Lena let the dog off his leash and he ran straight up to Clark and jumped on him and licked him before switching his attention to his mistress Kara.
"Lois, Jon, Jordan, this is Krypto, my pet dog from Krypton and once he's done training, he'll be my new sidekick, Superdog. Brainy's already making him a costume." Kara said with a smile and Krypto barked happily at that.
"And he gets along with Lena?" Lois asked, looking at Lena for an answer to that.
"Considering I'm the one who provides him with indestructible dog toys, yeah, he loves me." Lena said with a laugh, which Lois shared.
"Good. I wish there were more kryptonian dogs out there so that we could have one. Especially this little one." Lois said, since Kara knew she was pregnant.
"How are you feeling by the way?" Kara asked.
"Okay so far. Thank god I'm only carrying one baby instead of two." Lois said.
"Why can't we just keep Krypto, since Aunt Kara's already grown up and I think Krypto would like living on the farm." Jordan asked, since he wanted the kryptonian dog, though the moment he said that, Krypto turned and growled at him.
"Yeah, no. Krypto is my dog, not yours and I'm not giving him to you. Especially with your attitude lately Jordan." Kara said, but Jordan didn't listen and actually tried to grab Krypto anyways, only for Krypto to bark at him loudly and bite his hand with enough force to actually draw blood and it actually hurt.
"Damn it." Jordan said as Kara and his parents glared at him.
"I said no Jordan. Krypto, good boy. I don't know what happened to you Jordan, but you're not the same good kid you used to be. It's clear that your powers are bringing out the worst in you." Kara said, glaring at her nephew.
"Aunt Kara." Jordan said, trying to calm her down, only for Kara to superspeed him into one of the Tower's cells.
"You can stay in here without your powers until I'm done talking with your parents and even then, I'm not sure if you should be allowed to have your powers right now, since you clearly don't deserve them, especially since I know your parents raised you better than this. I don't know what has gotten into you lately, but I know I don't like it." Kara said angrily as she shut the cell door and let the power dampeners kick in.
"Sorry about that." Kara said when she returned to the others.
"No, it's okay, Jordan's been in need of a rude awakening for a while and nothing we've tried has gotten through to him. Maybe some jail time will help. Also, maybe a power dampener to keep on him until he shows some improvement." Clark said.
"Brainy already built one." Lena said as she handed Lois a power dampener.
"Once it's on someone, it'll lock onto them until you turn it off using this remote that's programmed to only work for either you or Clark." Lena said.
"Thank you. We were hoping it wouldn't come to this, but Jordan's attitude has left us no choice, especially since Lana's daughter has developed powers too." Clark said, since Kara knew all about Lana Lang.
"So, Lana did pass on her powers?" Kara asked.
"She did and she's even reclaimed hers so she can help teach her daughter to control them. But anyways, back to the topic of the Lexosuit." Clark said.
"Uh dad, can I keep looking around this place?" Jonathan asked, since this didn't really involve him.
"Go ahead and you can take Krypto with you, since you seem to be more mature than Jordan." Kara said.
"I don't want to take him, but I would like to be able to dogsit him occasionally." Jonathan said and Kara smiled.
"We'll talk. But for now, you can go, but please do not try to get into any of the off-limits areas, since you need a legion ring to get into them and they're off limits for a reason." Kara said and Jon nodded, right as Brainy entered.
"I've been summoned?" Brainy asked, since Kara had asked him to come.
"Since Lena's busy with me, Clark and Lois right now, I was hoping you could indulge Jonathan's scientific curiosity, since he definitely got the enhanced intelligence from Earth's sun." Kara said and Briany smiled and nodded.
"It would be my pleasure. To the lab." Brainy said as he led Jonathan away.
"He needs a distraction since he and Nia hit a rough patch. But anyways, onto the Lexosuit." Kara said and Lena nodded as she plugged a USB drive into the main computer to pull up all the data Clark's kryptonite suit had gathered on the lexosuit on the computer.
"Okay, what do you have?" Lois asked.
"It looks like the suit is built out of numerous different components, including human and alien. New and upgraded weapons, reinforced joints, but I think I found the reason Lex destroyed it." Lena said.
"And that would be?" Clark asked.
"The suit used up more power than the core could generate. Lex tried to power it with some kind of experimental power source that Lex pushed too far and drained it. There isn't a portable power source made by humans on Earth that can power a suit capable of combating Superman for long. At least to be used to its fullest capacity." Lena said.
"Okay, that makes sense, but still, where did he get the suit?" Clark asked.
"My best guess would be from my mother at Cadmus, since a lot of the aspects of this suit match designs from Cadmus Labs, which I know is a front for Cadmus, I just can't prove it yet. I'm also positive that Amertek has something to do with it." Lena said.
"Can you send this data to my dad, see if he can help?" Lois asked.
"You can take the drive back with you." Lena confirmed.
"Thanks." Lois said as Kara got a call from Kelly.
"Kelly, what's going on?" Kara asked.
"Turn on channel two now." Kelly said.
"Okay." Kara said as she grabbed a tv remote and turned on the news to see Councilwoman Rankin holding a press conference where she was denying any affiliation with the shooting of Kelly's rally, claiming that the investigation into her was just a smokescreen to keep her from being elected mayor.
"That bitch." Kara said, shocking everyone, since Kara normally didn't speak like that, but this woman warranted that. Especially after she heard Rankin try to pin this on Kelly, saying that this whole thing had been set up by Kelly to bring in sympathy and that Alex wasn't even paralyzed, she was just pretending.
"I'd say that's accurate. I think we need to start digging into Rankin to expose her." Lena said and Kara nodded.
"Let me know if you need any help with that." Lois said, since she was not happy about this either and neither was Clark.
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