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[sub][hr][/sub][COLOR=#81CFFF][indent][sub][B]Location:[/B] [COLOR=#BFD7D7][I]Axel Heiberg Island, Canada
[/I] - [I]Present[/I][/COLOR][/sub][sup][right][b]Issue #1.07:[/b] [COLOR=#BFD7D7][I]Don't Flinch / Crisis Event[/I][/COLOR][/right][/sup][/indent][/color][sub][hr][/sub]
[color=silver][indent][indent]Kara was never one who liked surprises.

In her experience, surprises were almost always categorically terrible. From the bullying she endured from Sabra Khoury in middle school to finding out your adopted grandparents wanted nothing to do with you, Kara never really cared for things she couldn’t really prepare for. When Livewire told her that she was going to have to “wait for the big surprise” it nearly sent her into a panic attack. After being introduced to an alien database that was always listening and the strengthening of her super-hearing when she was in the stratosphere, Kara didn’t exactly expect people were going to be coy and cryptic, but bad guys were going to do bad guy stuff.

As soon as made away from the offshore facility, Kara had made a bee-line to the Fortress of Solitude in hopes that Kelex could pick up something, anything. And the only answer he could give her was that a source of alien technology had been detected during her fight with Livewire, though what kind of technology wasn’t present in kryptonian records. It left Kara sitting on her thumbs as she looked through decrypted files on Livewire that Kelex had accessed. Past associations. Psychological records. Origin story. Online blog. Youtube account. Whatever she could find, even if it didn't help her much.

[COLOR=#81CFFF]“Hm.”[/color] Kara muttered underneath her breath. [COLOR=#81CFFF]“Kelex, are you sure this is all we could find?”[/color]

[b]“Yes. This is all I could find in the databases I have been able to access pertaining to ‘Livewire’ and ‘Leslie Willis’.”[/b]

[COLOR=#81CFFF]“There’s nothing that can indicate where I should look. We’re on a bit of a time crunch.”[/color]

[b]“You are concerned with her threat.”[/b]

[COLOR=#81CFFF]“Yeah. I don’t like the sound of ‘the big surprise’.”[/color]

Kara bit her lip. Had she fought a little harder, a little quicker, or a little smarter she wouldn’t have been distracted by Livewire so quickly. Whatever surprise Livewire’s friends had in store for the rest of the world, Kara felt like she shared some blame for the result. If she could find some sort of information that led her to be able to prevent a terrorist group from doing damage, then she needed to be looking at every piece of information. Every news headline. Every murmur on the internet. Every seemingly insignificant piece of information that could lead her to find the people responsible before they acted out their “surprise”.

Though, the likelihood of that was getting less-and-less with each passing minute.

The minutes seemed to trail into hours as Kara navigated each nugget of information that Kelex had given her. But even with Livewire’s old social media accounts in the mix there just didn’t seem to be any indication of when Leslie Willis became radicalized. Since her last youtube post some five or six years ago, the woman had an arrest record that seemed to only get exponentially worse with each passing month. At one point she was one of the top names on America’s Most Wanted.

But none of it really stuck out. Her agenda was consistent with what Kara figured made sense for a woman who was barely making ends meet before her metagene materialized. Give someone desperate and morally dubious great power and they would shrike responsibility for their own gain, and that was exactly what Leslie Willis embodied. Once her metagene materialized in 2015, she robbed the First National Bank of Metropolis. That was her first act as her alias – Livewire. Her first arrest wasn’t for two more years after that. When she escaped from Stryker's Island it had an impact on metahuman captivity measures, but until her fight earlier today she had evaded full capture.

Keyword being full.

She was arrested in Gotham City a few months ago – the arresting officer being noted as a Detective S. Alcana. As far as Kara could find, there were no ties of Livewire’s employer or connections. She was supposedly working as an “independent thief”, which given her connections with the group that attacked the Stagg facility was extremely unlikely. The GCPD hadn’t sniffed out or uncovered anything by Livewire. Which made sense given she escaped from GCPD custody before she could be transferred to Blackgate.

[COLOR=#81CFFF]“So she found her employer somewhere around that time. Maybe I should visit New Jersey's Black Diamon—”[/color] The sudden sound of Kelex's voice snapped her out of her analysis, the kryptonian girl looking over to Kelex's body.

[b]“Kara, I believe I have detected information of interest.”[/b]

[COLOR=#81CFFF]“Awesome! What do we have?”[/color]

[b]“It is a broadcast. I will put it on the central display.”[/b]

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Kara’s eyes widened as the broadcast began, the man called Stryfe announced his “evil villain speech” all including footage of his chaos. As far as she could presume, this was the “big surprise” that Livewire had been talking about. Worst thing of it all was that he was manipulating people into a frenzy hoping it'd cause wide-scale chaos. She wasn’t sure how he was doing it, but she had to get there to stop it.

[COLOR=#81CFFF]“Ugh. I've gotta go.”[/color] She sighed as she pressed her left hand into a fist before pressing it into the open palm of her right hand. [COLOR=#81CFFF]“I'll be back as soon as I figure this thing out.”[/color] 

In a flash, she was gone from the Fortress.

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