The Long Life of Kara Zor-El

Chapter 8

"Kara!!" Lena says concerned, rushing over to Kara. Lena doesn't even bother to check if the Reverse Flash is still in her office.

Lena falls down next to Kara and sees that she is unconscious but still breathing. She isn't in a good state however as her body is slowly becoming more and more green with kryptonite while her wound looks to be getting worse.

Lena turns to look for The Flash and is surprised to see him crouched next to her inspecting Kara.

"Barry... I need you to get me and Kara to my lab in the basement as quick as possible." Lena says.

"How did you...." Barry begins.

"There's no time! We need to remove the kryptonite or Kara will die!" Lena says firmly.

Barry nods and in a flash Lena sees that Kara along with Barry are gone. Before Lena can get worried that Barry took Kara somewhere where she won't be able to find her or save her Lena notices that she is moving in a blur, before appearing in her lab. Kara is laying on a medical bed that was set up in the lab, Barry and Lena are now standing over the bed.

"Okay, I need you to grab that lighting equipment over there and bring it here. Do it at normal speed, if your break it we are screwed." Lena says as she points to red sun lamp equipment.

Barry just nods in response and works his way over to the lighting equipment. Meanwhile Lena uses a ultra sound to inspect where the kryptonite is inside Kara's stomach. Lena sees that thankfully the kryptonite hasn't damaged any major organs, but unfortunately it has broken up into 3 different shards. Just as Lena is finishing her search for more shards Barry arrives with the lighting equipment.

"She has 3 different shards of kryptonite in her stomach area." Lena explains.

Lena gestures for Barry to hold the ultra sound while she sets up the lighting. After fiddling with some wires and pressing a few buttons the lights turn red. Lena then spends a few moments setting the lights up in the correct places over Kara so that they begin to effect her. After this Lena quickly walks over to the other side of the room to get a scalpel and tweezers. She knows she is going to have to use them to cut into Kara to remove the kryptonite and save her. Lena returns to the bedside with the tools in hand.

"Okay, I'm going to need you to hold that ultrasound so I can see where to cut exactly. The entry wounds are not big enough for me to just pull the kryptonite straight from them." Lena explains.

"Wait!" Barry says as Lena raises the scalpel. "I can do this."

Lena looks confused at Barry but then he looks at the monitor to make note of where the kryptonite is located inside of Kara. He then removes the ultrasound and begins vibrating his hand, entering it into Kara's stomach and then a few moments later removing his hand and opening up his palm to reveal three pieces of kryptonite.

"I have a lead box over there." Lena points to the other side of the lab, in total astonishment as to what Barry just did.

As Barry runs to the other side of the lab Lena uses the ultra sound again to make sure that there is no kryptonite remaining inside of Kara. To her relief there is none.

Lena lets out a sigh of relief and then switches the lights to glow a bright yellow, allowing the lights now to recharge Kara's cells, rather than weaken them like the red sun lamps. Lena then moves closer to Kara and she could swear that out the corner of her eye she saw a green figure, but when she looked there was nothing there. Lena puts it down to stress of the whole situation.

Barry comes back over to Lena and watches as the kryptonite effect on Kara disappears and her wound heals itself. Both Barry and Kara let out a sigh of relief.