After dropping Kord off in the Island's medical bay to recover from the attack, Kara had sent out a message to her entire team to come to the Island immediately for an emergency team meeting.

Krypto hadn't left her side since he'd arrived on the island, since he could sense how much distress his mistress was in and he was growling as he sniffed a scent that he hadn't smelled in years, but would still recognize anywhere. The scent of his mistress's former packmate, the one who'd never liked him and had often tried to get rid of him when he was a puppy. He was not happy that she was back, but hopefully Kara would not return to her, since Krypto preferred Kara's current mate, who spoiled him even more than Kara did.

Felicity was currently standing in the center of the control hub where Kelex was running scans on her to give Kara a better idea of how fully integrated the scarab was with her and also to run diagnostics on the Scarab, since it didn't seem to be functioning the way Kara thought it would, while they waited for the others to arrive. The first one to arrive was Lena, who appeared via transmat portal, followed by J'onn and Alex, who flew in and J'onn was also carrying Astra, since Kara had asked him to bring her too, since this situation involved her too.

"Felicity, is that you?" Alex asked, shocked at seeing her girlfriend wearing high tech battle armor.

"Yeah, this is not what I expected when I went over to Kord Industries this morning." Felicity said.

"Kara, please tell me that's not what I think it is?" Astra asked as J'onn also showed some concerns.

"Unfortunately it is. She's bonded to a reach scarab." Kara said.

"What's Reach?" Lena asked as she walked over to her girlfriend's side.

"The Reach. A race of alien conquerors. Actually, Alex's ring could probably provide us with more information than Astra or I could." Kara said.

"What do you mean?" Alex asked, since her knowledge of the history of the Green Lantern Corp was still relatively limited.

"Let's just say the Reach and the Guardians have a history. Just ask your ring to pull up all the information on the Reach." Kara said and Alex nodded as she held up her hand with her power ring on it.

"Ring, you heard her. Access all information available about the Reach." Alex said.

"Confirmed. Accessing information." her ring said as it projected an image of some kind of humanoid bug alien.

"The Reach are intergalactic conquerors. After conquering numerous planets and showing no signs of stopping, the Guardians of the Universe mobilized the Green Lantern Corp in response to fight one of the largest wars in galactic history, forcing the Reach back and eventually forcing them to sign a peace treaty with the Guardians that only allowed them to lay claim to a world if they were invited to it. If that happens, then the planet is considered property of the Reach and no lantern may set foot on that planet again." the ring said.

"Okay, so this Reach is bad news, but what does that have to do with me?" Felicity asked.

"Because the Reach are the ones who created that Scarab." Astra said, shocking them.

"What?" Alex asked, surprised her ring didn't mention that.

"Yeah, you really think that conquerors like the Reach would just stand down because of a treaty they were practically forced into making?" Kara asked and Astra nodded.

"They simply switched to more covert means, utilizing loopholes in the treaty by approaching worlds under the guise of peaceful exploration and diplomacy and the first step of their plan is always to send cybernetic scarabs like the one fused to Felicity's spine to infiltrate primitive planets. Once there, the scarab usually seeks out a host to serve as a scout and advanced guard to pave the way for the Reach's arrival and before you ask, the reason the Guardians haven't intervened is because the Reach are good at covering their tracks making sure that it looks like they've kept up their end of the treaty. But Felicity's scarab isn't acting the way they normally do according to history." Kara said.

"What do you mean?" Alex asked as she decided to use her ring to do her own scans to give this information to the Guardians of the universe, since she suspected that they'd find this very interesting.

"Usually, once a reach scarab fuses to a host, it takes full control of both their body and mind, but that doesn't seem to be the case with Felicity. She seems to be able to control her scarab to some degree." Kara said and Felicity nodded.

"Yeah, I mean, I can hear the Scarab, or as she calls herself, Khaji Da's voice in my head, but she's not trying to take control of me. It's weird." Felicity said.

"Clearly this scarab is not acting normally, but that's not a bad thing." Kara said.

"But we need to be sure it's safe before we get too familiar with it, especially if that thing attached to my girlfriend's spine is some kind of weapon. Is there any way to remove it?" Alex asked.

"Not without killing her. Once the scarab picks its host, the only thing to separate them is death of the host." a new voice said and the newcomers were surprised to see Ted Kord walk into the room.

"What is the CEO of Kord Industries doing here?" Alex asked as J'onn's eyes glowed red.

"He was the one who had the scarab and he was the second blue beetle." J'onn said.

"Blue Beetle?" Lena asked.

"The protector of Palermo City. Disappeared years ago. Around the time Kord Industries relocated to National City." Kara said, since she'd done her research on potential league recruits.

"Yeah. My mentor, an archaeologist named Dan Garrett was the one who found the scarab during an expedition in 1983 and it fused to him the way it's fused to Felicity. He used the powers it gave him to become the first blue beetle. When Dan died, he left the scarab to me, but it never activated for me, nor did I want it to, so I locked it away to keep my insane sister Victoria from getting her hands on it. But I was still inspired to become the second Blue Beetle of modern times, though I retired from it after I hit a certain age. I ended my time around the same time Batman began his." Ted said.

"Still, you can help Felicity learn to use the Scarab after we determine that it's safe for her to use." Kara said and Ted nodded.

"I'd be happy to. Kara Danvers." Ted said.

"Why am I not surprised you figured it out." Kara asked.

"You're not the only super genius here." Ted said.

"At least we know we can trust you with our secrets." Alex said, since this man was already familiar with the life, so he knew the importance of keeping their identities a secret.

"But the scarab isn't the only thing you promised me answers about." Felicity now said, looking at Kara.

"What else is there?" Lena asked.

"The attacker at Kord Industries, she was a Kryptonian and Kara knew her. Intimately." Felicity said.

"Who was it?" Astra asked and Kara sighed.

"It was Lora." Kara said, causing both Astra and Lena to look at Kara in understanding, since Kara and Lena had already had the talk about past relationships while Krypto growled at the mention of that girl who broke Kara's heart.

"Who?" Alex asked.

"She's my ex. Lora Dru-Zod. Daughter of none other than General Dru Zod." Kara said.

"Wait, first General Zod's daughter and now Lex Luthor's sister, you really have a type for the relatives of your cousin's greatest enemies." Alex said, giving her little sister trouble.

"Lora and I were friends during school and our families were close." Kara said.

"How close?" Lena asked.

"They were considering matching me with Lora's twin brother Lor-Zord. Though he wasn't the member of the Zod family I was interested. Lora and I were involved romantically and while Krypton was more advanced in accepting that kind of thing than Earth was, it was far from perfect." Kara said.

"So what happened?" Alex asked, since both Astra and Lena already knew the full story.

"Her father went insane and started the war on Krypton and while I tried my best to save Lora, she chose to side with her father and throw away what we had together. And she only became even more radicalized after her brother was killed in the war and I thought that even if she had survived it, that she would've died when Krypton exploded, since there was no record of her being sent to the phantom zone like her parents due to her being a minor at the time." Kara said.

"Makes sense. So how is she alive then?" Alex asked.

"Best guess is that when it became clear that her father was losing the war he started, her parents sent her away from Krypton to escape justice." Kara said.

"And now she's trying to pick up where her parents left off." Alex said.

"Pretty much. And I'm guessing that she has something to do with Non's plans too." Kara said.

"Are you okay?" Lena asked her.

"I don't know what I feel. Except that we need to stop Lora before she can pull off whatever plan she has." Kara said.

"I'm gonna head to Oa to let the Guardians know about our Reach situation and see what they think we should do about it." Alex said and Kara nodded.

"This could finally give the Guardians the proof they need to end the Reach's threat once and for all." Kara said as Alex flew off.