Unsupervised

The Big Red Button

Alarms blaring and shots bouncing off the walls, Alex, Lois, Batman, and a very groggy Wonder Woman ran for their lives. They'd stop long enough to return fire from time to time, but they were outnumbered, outgunned, and running out of ammo - Lois having used up her supply of tranq darts some time earlier had now resorted to using her pistol instead, though she was trying to use non lethal shots wherever possible to take men down.

"Lois it's me," a familiar voice crackled for a moment in Lois' ear, then became clear.

"Lena! Where the hell have you been?!"

"Investigating. Do you want the good news or the bad news?"

"We're in the bad news! I'm living the bad news!"

"What the hell happened?!"

"We found out who's running this place! Lena it's—"

"Cadmus, I know."

Lois almost tripped in surprise, stumbled a few paces and for one horrible moment she thought she might fall. But then Alex's arm on her elbow helped her to steady and find her centre of balance once more, and then she and the other woman picked up the pace as bullets began to ricochet off the walls to either side.

"How do you know that?!"

"I asked the man in charge."

"Can she do that?" Winn asked curiously.

"Good evening, Mr. Schott. I didn't realise you were joining us for this conversation."

"Gah!" Winn exclaimed, horrified that Lena was addressing him directly. "Don't hurt me!"

"Winn, shut up," Lois said, "Are you safe?"

"I'm fine, just worried about Alex. I lost her comm signal. Have you seen her?"

"I said shut up, Schott, and she's fine, dandy," Lois yelped when a bullet whizzed by her ear, "hunky-dorey even. Now be quiet and let the adults talk. Lena, are you alright? I saw you wining and dining some guy earlier. Was that Doctor Frankenstein?"

"Dr. Bradley, yes, but to be clear, I was being wined and dined. He was incredibly helpful once I identified myself and offered to put in a good word for him with my mother."

Lois looked across at Alex with a smirk as the two women ran side by side. "See, told you she flashed her ID."

"What are you talking about?" Alex asked as she fired three shots behind her, taking out two guards.

"Lena," Lois pointed to her ear.

"Thank God, she's alright. Is she alright?"

"Better than us," Lois replied returning fire herself at another guard and grinning triumphantly as she dropped him with a non lethal thigh shot.

"Where is she? Anywhere has to be better than this," Alex said.

Lois nodded. "Hey, where are you? Is it someplace safe?"

"I'm in the main lab at the very center of the facility. There's something here I want you to see."

"She says she's in the main lab, middle of this place."

"Can she lead us there?" Batman asked as he worked to keep up with the others, Wonder Woman half laying on him as they ran.

"Hold on," Lois replied. "Lena, can you give me directions?"

"I'm not sure. I can't lock on your signal here. I feel lucky to have been able to connect to your comms. I've tried several times. You must be close so... hold on. My, there seem to be a large number of guards converging three corridors south of the lab and, I think, a floor below me."