SuperCorp Chronicles

Chapter 48

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.