Victoria Kord was not happy. When she'd first heard that her brother planned to sell Kord Industries to Argo Enterprises, she was overjoyed, since that meant access to the most advanced weaponry on the planet. Weaponry she could easily steal and use to make newer, better weapons, not to mention it would allow her to finally get close to Kara Danvers, since Victoria had been trying to get a meeting with the younger genius CEO for years, but she'd never taken her calls, but it turned out that her brother had been mentoring one of Kara's best friends.

But then not only did her brother sell the company to Kara Danvers, Kara had then kicked her out of the business, stating that Victoria Kord was bad for her business, since her ruthlessness and lack of morals did not fit into Kara's vision and image, since Kara was known for being a benevolent businesswoman while Victoria was anything but. So instead of getting everything, she'd ever wanted, Victoria lost everything she'd worked for and she was certain that Kara had her blacklisted from the tech industry, since no other tech company, Wayne Enterprises, Queen Consolidated, Mercury Labs, Magnus Labs, none of them would even take her call. And of course, other players in the tech industry like Luthor Corp and Star Labs were already owned by Argo Enterprises, so they wouldn't hire her anyways.

So Victoria had been reduced to working out of an old, decommissioned Kord Industries bunker outside Palermo City to perform her research on replicating not only Blue Beetle's scarab, but also recreating Green Lantern's ring, since governments around the world would kill for either, but especially the ring.

Though she was having more luck with the Scarab project, since all the information her OMACs gathered on Green Lantern's ring wasn't worth much to her, since it was quickly becoming clear that recreating a weapon like that was beyond the ability of any human to recreate. Especially since she still couldn't figure out how to power it.

Replicating Blue Beetle's abilities was easier to a degree, since Victoria's OMACs were already designed on the Scarab's armor, but it was still incomplete and would be until she could get her hands on the Scarab's source code. Once she did that, she'd be able to replicate the technology on a much larger scale. The only issue she was having was capturing Blue Beetle so she could steal it. Though hopefully that would change soon, since thanks to her mysterious angel investor, Victoria was able to take the data each OMAC gathered from their battles with Blue Beetle and Green Lantern and use it to make improvements to the next model and hopefully soon, she'll have built an OMAC capable of defeating Green Lantern and capturing Blue Beetle.

"I see my investments have been put to good use." a new voice said behind her and Victoria turned and was stunned to see Lex Luthor, one of the most wanted men in the world, walk up to her.

"Lex Luthor. Of course, you're the one funding my research." Victoria said, not even surprised.

"Well of course. After all, if anyone would pay money to help you kill members of the Justice League, it's me. And I'm here to start collecting a return on my investment, since while I admit your OMACs are getting closer to your goal, you're moving too slowly." Lex said.

"I'm doing the best I can with limited funding and resources, since you can't exactly afford to give me the resources I need to finish faster." Victoria said, since a majority of Lex's assets were either frozen or transferred to his sister.

"True. But as of now, if you want any more of my money, you'll hand over all the research you have on the OMAC project. That is, if you want to remain in charge of it." Lex said.

"Why do you want my research? You already have your own flying warsuit." Victoria said.

"And I'm curious on how your research might help me upgrade it." Lex said.

"Well you should've started with that. I'm more than happy to help you with that, I just need a little more time before you take it." Victoria said.

"And why would I give you that?" Lex asked.

"Because my OMACs are only functioning at a limited capacity. My research is incomplete, as you'll see if you go over it. Your suit wouldn't function as flawlessly as you'd like." Victoria said and Lex grinned, since now this was getting interesting.

"And what do you need to complete it?" Lex asked.

"I just need to capture Blue Beetle so that I can extract the necessary code from her scarab. Regardless of what happens to the host." Victoria said and Lex nodded.

"Do what you need to do to upgrade your latest OMAC and I'll send one of my associates to help you capture Blue Beetle. We've had to relocate after we were kicked out of Kahndaq. I overstepped my bounds there with its King and Queen." Lex said, since he'd tried to take out Queen Isis of Kahndaq to secure Black Adam's loyalty, only for his attempt to fail due to the queen having power of her own and it led to Lex and his group barely escaping Kahndaq alive due to the King's wrath.

"Thank you. I'm sure that this partnership will be beneficial to both of us." Victoria said as she returned to her work as Lex walked out.

"She's a fool if she thinks she's actually worthy enough of being my partner. She's just a tool to be used." Lex said to his henchman Otis after they were clear of Victoria's systems, since Lex Luthor had no true partners, just subordinates and temporary allies. And Victoria Kord wasn't even worthy of that. Unlike the other members of the Legion Lex was building, who he'd developed a kind of respect for, Victoria Kord had none of that. She was just a means to an end and when she'd outserved her usefulness, he'd either find another use for her or dispose of her all together. He didn't care which.