Call me Kara

Chapter 50

~Earth-1~

"What the hell happened?" A very irritated Kara asked, sitting at the head of the round table in S.T.A.R. Labs, with the rest of the JL present. "Because I wasn't aware of Dig being a leader of an A.R.G.U.S. task force."

Lyla was stressed, worried, tired and wondering if this was Kara Zor-El or J'onn Jonzz.

"Johnny volunteered. We got a report of a meta in Thailand. A man who could control water, make it hard, make ice columns, make weapons, even freeze the moisture in the air. He wasn't shy about showing off his gifts. The local police tried to bring him in for questioning in an ice related murder. They found him in an abandoned apartment building, along with three others. One of those people must have controlled the police officers vision because they immediately thought they were outside. When they came too and realized they were in the same spot in the building, the man, identified later as Klaus Kristen, was dead, and there had obviously been a fight. We thought there was a possibility that N.O.W.H.E.R.E. had attempted to either take him or recruit him and he turned them down. We sent in a team to investigate and of course found nothing except an albino corpse, but our RAD detector picked up a type of radiation our scientists had never seen before. We followed the trail which ended in Vietnam. Johnny volunteered to lead the team of A.R.G.U.S. strike force agents, highly trained former special ops soldiers, to track the radiation and investigate the area it ended. We lost contact with the team. Thinking it was a possible communications error we sent a black team in to check. All the agents were dead and John was... missing."

"Why in the hell was he leading a strike force?" Kara asked, forcefully, surprising everyone at the table. "You are the head of the biggest black ops agency in the world and you really had no one but your husband to send, alone with a group of supposedly trained soldiers against a team of metahumans? He wouldn't have been able to volunteer if you hadn't told him about it!"

"Who else was I supposed to send?! He would have gone regardless!"

"Not if you hadn't told him about it! He could have called us! He is one of us! He went back to Star City to be with Sara but he is still one of us, not A.R.G.U.S. !"

"Someone had to do something!"

"And again, out of all the people you had you let your husband go with backup that couldn't possibly take down the metas we have fought! What the hell were you thinking?"

"Kara, calm down." Alex suggested.

"I am calm. Answer the question Lyla, what were you thinking?"

"I was thinking if he had a mission he wouldn't be patrolling the streets of Star City at night alone. Remember your lair, Oliver? Your million dollar lair that Palmer Tech paid for?"

"I did?" Ray asked, surprised, but was waved off by Felicity.

"What about it?" Oliver asked.

"It seemed a shame to leave it there unused. At least that is what John felt. I tried to get him to stop but he wouldn't. He felt someone needed to save the city."

"The damn city has been saved and threatened and saved a hundred times over. Since when did Oliver become its' personal police force?" Kara asked. "He didn't ask Dig to go out on his own."

"No, he wouldn't because he knew Oliver wouldn't leave you!"

"If you even think of blaming Oliver for your screw up, so help me you will wish I was J'onn Jonzz." Kara threatened. Lyla looked away from the intimidating stare of the woman before her. Motherhood had definitely changed her from the sweet, awkward bride she had last seen at the wedding.

"I'm not. Someone had to do something and he volunteered. Considering what he and Oliver have faced and defeated before: he was the most qualified."

"We were the most qualified." The blonde countered