Nevyn_Black
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She hissed.
@StrongerTogether: Something's found my Fortress. Something... scary.
@StrongerTogether: Keep me in the loop about Gotham, but I need to secure Krypton's heritage.
@StrongerTogether: Blue, follow when you can. I might be out of my weight class on this one.
And with a rush of wind she was gone.
Faster than a speeding bullet.
Jaime sat down with his back against a blasted concrete pylon and viewed the form of Supergirl receding over the wreckage. He sighed, something deep inside feeling like a hole had been ripped in him and his soul was pouring out of it.
"Yeah. Easy for you to say. Some of us haven't eaten or slept in days and we don't get our nourishment from sunlight."
"Jaime...there is a possibility. I could give you an...upgrade."
Reyes frowned, rubbing his stubbled jaw. "What kind of 'upgrade' are we talking about, Khaji?"
"I believe that I can take the portion of the New Genesis Life-Equation we have and complete it, by bonding it to your cellular matrix. But this would irrevocably change you. You would no longer ever be merely human."
Jaime felt his heart skip a beat and then race, pain spearing through his chest along with a terrible chill of fear. He swallowed and gazed after Kara Zor-El.
"What would that do to me, Khaji? To us?"
" I am not certain Jaime. I do not believe it has ever been contemplated. But I believe that it would allow us to help the Kryptonian woman, and save your other friends if they needed help. It would considerably advance our operational capacity."
Jaime Reyes felt his gaze drawn to the sky, where stars shone down on the war torn earth, where the moon-
exploded in red fireballs across it's surface.
Tides changed subtly, the gravitational field of the earth shifted slightly, the magnetosphere vibrated a little.
Jaime was stuck in a moment of total inability to make a decision or form a coherent thought. Whatever was happening now was too big for him.
At last, after a long time staring at that grin burned into the moon, Jaime closed his eyes, tears leaking from beneath bruised eyelids, leaking down his cheeks.
There really was no other choice, given the stakes they faced.
"Do it."
A cocoon of bluish metal sheathed the form of Jaime Reyes, and sank into the earth beneath the shattered battlefield...