Chapter Twenty Five: One and the Same Part One.

Chapter Twenty Five: One and the Same Part One.

"So any luck?" Kara asked Harry as he returned the next night in a bit of a daze. She offered him the chair for him to sit down and he took it. He took a cup of coffee and sipped on it, allowing himself a scant few moments to collect his thoughts and leaving Kara in suspense. The suspense did not linger for too long for Harry answered the question.

"No, no luck, and I kept a close eye on Shiva for several hours, but she didn't meet anyone in that Motel Room," Harry said as he recalled the situation with picture perfect clarity in the back of his mind. "She just ordered some Chinese Food and watched the news."

'And just to let you know, I didn't find anything else on the Jackal,' Gwen thought to him and there was a pause.

'But we did find something on the chemical compound that was found on Scott's glasses,' Jean stated seriously and Harry was all ears as she laid it down on him. 'The compound was something that was manufactured two hundred years ago but has long since ceased production. It is highly flammable.'

'Well that would explain why we didn't find much of Scott,' Rogue said in a dry and serious voice. She did not mean to make light of the situation but at the same time, things had grown extremely grim and she was not too happy about it. 'Unless you think it was planted there….'

'Well Essex would have access to something along those lines,' Kitty suggested but there was one thought lingering on their mind.

Where was Madelyne Pryor?

Lois Lane as always was on the case and she dug up some more news. 'Well, I uncovered some more information, and a sighting as well….she's been sighted just two hours ago at a subway outside of Gotham City.'

'I'm on it right now,' Helena said, figuring that since she was the closet, she would take up this part of the investigation.

'But the information that I've found….well it's disturbing and also baffling, and I've seen a lot,' Lois thought to Harry.

'Tell us the worst of it then,' Jean thought, wondering what her exact double was in fact going through. Her arms crossed together as she threw her head back.

'Madelyne Pryor was a bright young girl, top of her class, was primed for several key college scholarships, friends with everyone, the popular kids and the not so popular kids, and then one day, she was reporting harassment, there was a mysterious figure that was stalking her, calling her house, sending her cryptic e-mails, but no one else seemed to be around when these supposed incidents happened,' Lois thought in a hush voice. 'Things reached a fever pitch when she was taken on her way home from school, thrown in the back of a car, and drove all the way to Oregon, before she was dumped out in the middle of nowhere. They didn't harm her, other than the kidnapping, didn't ask for any money, but they just drove off. The police bungled the investigation or perhaps they were convinced not to continue, as they came to the conclusion that Madelyne was making the entire thing up.'

'That's bullshit if there ever was bullshit,' Kitty said and that was something that was agreed to by all.

'Her parents were never around, they worked for some government agency according to the reports,' Lois continued and Harry smiled. He had a theory actually but he was going to let Lois continue. 'She was put on a plane to get her away from this.'

'Not realizing that it put her all that closer to the mad man who did this,' Harry said. He was pretty sure that the real Madelyne Pryor was long since dead and how much of her DNA, if any, Essex had used on this Jean clone was up for debate. However, Harry figured that her body might be potentially useful for a base as mutant DNA tended to be a bit….sketchy.

Harry disappeared and reappeared with a flash in the shadows of Gotham City, joining Batwoman and Nightwing.

"This is the subway where the girl was reported," Helena whispered as she scanned out for any activities. "And that's not the only thing that's roaming around these subways."

Harry shook his head and he saw him standing there, Blockbuster. Granted, he did not look in good shape so what he did with the male clones was still partially working but he still had a few good hours of life left in him and he was going to present a change.

"Follow him, he may lead you to Maddie and also the other person behind this, the Jackal," Harry said and Helena nodded, both she and Barbara had been appraised about this weird case the next night.

Meanwhile Harry was trying to search the tunnel but found that there was nothing.

"She does move awfully quickly," Barbara whispered and that point was agreed to by all. There were a couple of more Marauders flooded the tunnel but they left when they realized one thing and that was Maddie was not here.

Harry hated to give up on the search but he returned to RAO and he saw Kara sitting at the computer.

"Not to burden you with what else was going on, but there's been another siting of Kandor, someone is moving around the bottle with it," Kara said and Harry grabbed her hand.

"I know this is important to you but….I wouldn't get your hopes up that it's actually there," Harry said to Kara and the blonde nodded her head. She understood.

"I know but a few sightings, too much to be a coincidence," Kara persisted and Harry really had no argument for her when it all boiled down to everything. He eyed the blonde who looked at him with an intense gaze.

"I'm going to follow another lead on the Pryor situation, and see if SHIELD knows anything," Harry said and without another word, he made his way to pay Maria Hill a visit.

"You just missed Nick Fury, he sends his regards," Natasha said as she showed up on the deck. "Even if he isn't the full time Director of SHIELD, he still has to jump in and offer his two cents every now and then."

"I'm sure," Harry said without missing a beat. It would not be Nick Fury if he did not show up every now and then to offer his word about whatever happened. "I actually was hoping that Director Hill might be able to help me."

"Exactly how?" Natasha asked and Harry raised an eyebrow. "Is it about….the situation that presented itself recently?"

"I should have known that SHIELD would be right on the ball with this one," Harry said in an approving voice and Natasha gave a smile to him although it was strained. It told Harry one thing and he did not need to spell it out even though he did so anyway. "And you're as baffled as I am."

"Some girl…..well SHIELD has taken a direct interest in it for the reasons which I'm sure you have figured out," Natasha said and Harry's simmering gaze of interest told the spy all that she needed to know. "Speaking of people who….you can't put anything past, that would be you, wouldn't it?"

"Yes, it would be me," Harry agreed with the woman as he saw Maria standing outside the deck.

"Mr. Potter, this is a surprise," Maria said adopting a professional demeanor. Actually Harry stared her down and raised an eyebrow. So the woman decided to come clean. "Actually it's really a surprise….because it's about the Pryor girl….it's rather weird that she disappeared. And…..well I haven't even begin to find out what happened to her parents."

"Essex would have likely taken them down, they would have been a liability to whatever plan he had," Harry said to her as he walked with her. "So, what were they up to?"

"Harry, that's top secret, I'm sorry but….."

"Oh, I assumed that you might have known about it," Harry said and Maria frowned as Harry shook his head. "Guess that you didn't know what happened with them."

"I didn't say that I didn't know it, I'm just saying that it was top secret," Maria said, trying not to get flustered, although given a state that she once saw Harry in, that was completely difficult to say the very least.

"Come on, Maria, I don't think that you have to hide the fact that there are some things that are even kept from the Director of SHIELD and I'm sure that Fury's visit…..it wasn't a coincidence that he popped up just before I came here, was it?" Harry asked Maria as he stood behind her. His hands hovered as closed to her side as possible, without touching her.

The fact that he did not touch her waist with his hands partially burned up Maria even more than any contact would have.

"I'm….I'm not at liberty to discuss that," Maria managed, finally resuming control of her faculties for a moment.

"Oh, well that's a shame, I would hate to see someone suffer because SHIELD had to withhold information, unless you know where the parents are," Harry said, although they weren't technically this girl's parents but cloning and genetic replication gave Harry a headache. "I'm sure SHIELD knows that Essex tormented the young girl for eighteen months of her life, and they were not once able to catch him in the act."

"I….a lot of that was during Fury's time and he left me with the ball during his disappearance," Maria said and Harry believed this honestly.

"I believe you Maria, but it still makes me wonder if I could figure out why Essex targeted this particular girl, other than the fact she just happened to resemble Jean," Harry told the woman and she nodded. "They had to work on some secret project…..or something….."

"I don't even know if I should be telling you this," Maria said as she stared him down and Harry stared back. There was something about the determination in his eyes that caused her to want to tell him everything.

"If it would save lives, than security goes out the window, and I might be able to help SHIELD solve a mystery that's obviously baffling them just as much as it's baffling me," Harry said to her and Maria inched back as she was leaning against the map of the world. Agents had all gone down to another level, it was just her and Harry there. "Tell me, if you think that you know something that could help and does SHIELD know anything about Jackal?"

"Jackal?" Maria asked and it struck her suddenly. "All I know is that it was an offshoot of HYDRA, that was even a splinter group before you caused HYDRA's resources to be destroyed. There is a woman who runs it, we don't know who her real name is, she has eluded all capture by SHIELD for at least fifteen years but her name is Viper."

"Viper?" Harry asked, there seemed to be some sort of animal theme going on. A picture of the woman popped up. She had green hair that framed her face and a seductive gaze, but it was just as deadly. Her soft cheek bones lured men into a false sense of security along with a luscious set of lips. She had a tight black bodysuit that clung to every curve to her body.

"That is the only known photo that we have of her and as you can attest to, it's not exactly in the best quality," Maria said in an apologetic voice but Harry waved it off. He was more interested in the man who was photographed in the background. "The Pryors…..they infiltrated Jackal towards the end, about two years ago….."

"Around the time where their daughter's harassment began," Harry said, he did not believe in coincidences, especially this one.

"Yes, that's odd," Maria agreed and given that Essex had rumored ties to HYDRA and any off shoots, that was not something to be expected. Essex had worked with the Red Skull during World War II conducting biological experiments on those who had been captured. The most horrifying had been suppressed from public knowledge but Maria saw the photos and the case files. She was not one to cringe easily.

"Who is that man?" Harry asked as his face was hidden but he had an ugly golden ring on his hand.

"I don't know," Maria admitted, she had been curious about that man but he had been like a White Whale, something that SHIELD could not figure out. "There have been a couple of offshore investment accounts that SHIELD has tracked down, but…..the moment that we got there, it had been drained of all of the funds."

"Figures," Harry said to her.

"The Pryors very likely ran into foul play, although if it was Essex, their bodies might have been harvested for organs," Maria said grimly, hoping that was not the case but it was not a grisly circumstance to rule out.

"Thanks and I just want to ask one more thing," Harry told Maria and Maria raised an eyebrow. "What about the other Jackal project….the one that OsCorp was undertaking."

"I don't know much about it," Maria said and she meant that one honestly. "It may have been one of OsCorp's super solider attempts."

Harry wondered if that theory lined up with another theory that he formulated in his mind.

"Maria, I think that you've been very helpful," Harry said as he backed her against the wall and Maria's eyes widened. "And hopefully the information that you've given me will allow me to solve this mystery."

"N-no problem," she said, trying to feel a bit better about the situation and Maria wrapped her arms around Harry's waist instinctively.

Suddenly, his lips found hers with a kiss that blew her mind. She could not believe it, she wondered if she had fallen asleep after a long day of dealing with the shit that SHIELD deals with and she was having an extremely vivid dream.

His hands explored her body with ease and he pulled back.

"I know you've been ready for this for a long time," he said with a grin.

Maria felt like her back was against the wall and quite literally at that. Harry's hands explored her breasts and caused her mind to explode in a flurry of amazing sensations. She closed her eyes as he unzipped the suit, to reveal more and more flesh.

"Harry," she whispered but he kissed her once again to silence her and she returned the kiss, battling his tongue. Her mind was rather overwhelmed by the sensations and he cupped her ass from behind. She had been waiting for this for a long time and she was not sure how her expectations were built up but there was one thing that she could say.

She was both extremely nervous and kind of scared. Harry kissed the side of her neck, exposing her body. She wore nothing but a lacy black pair of bra and panties underneath that SHIELD uniform. He smiled a predatory smile.

"You want this, don't you?" Harry whispered.

"Ever since….ever since I saw you and Miss Stacy…." Maria whispered as Harry's hands cupped her breasts and then explored down her smooth stomach.

He pulled back her panties and saw her smooth and shaved snatch. It was pink and dripping wet. His digits probed her inner folds and that caused her to pump her hips.

As good as his fingers felt, Maria hungered for his cock between her legs. She thought that she would lose it if she did not have that prime piece of meet stretching her out. Wordlessly, she reached, to cup the bulge.

"My, someone's eager," Harry breathed as she squeezed him and fondled his privates through his pants. "As good as that feels, I think that things are about to…."

She removed his belt and pants with swift ease and tugged his boxer shorts. In front of her face when the boxer shorts came out was a huge penis, it was twelve inches long and thick. She thought that it looked more imposing. She managed to barely wrap her hand around it as she pumped him up and down.

"I need this," she breathed as she tasted it for a brief moment and got it lubricated with her spit. Then without any other word, she allowed Harry to push her back onto the command deck. She knew there could be SHIELD agents that would enter at any moment and his rod was this close to entering her. "Please."

"If you insist," Harry grunted as he pushed himself between her smoldering hot thighs and the woman's eyes practically bugged out as she hung onto his shoulder. She pumped her hips up to meet his rod and he speared deeper into her. His balls slapped against her thighs as he continued to work into her. His cock buried so deep into her that she thought that she was going to lose her mind and soon.

Pleasure, that was what she felt. Her legs wrapped around his waist, never once keeping him from straying into her. He fucked her into the ground with rapid fire thrusts. This is what she imagined, no scratch that, this was not what she imagined.

This was better than what she imagined.

Harry plunged himself deep between her legs, pumping in and out of her. Maria closed her eyes and felt the rush. His balls slapped against her thighs as he slowly but surely ran his hands all over her body. He cupped her ass and continued to bury himself deep into her inner chambers. Maria's wet walls clamped around him and there was a sense where she was about ready to lose it.

"Hang on," Harry whispered to her and Maria nodded as she pumped her hips up, feeling the amazing explosion of an orgasm that rocked through her entire body. Her lips found his with an amazing kiss.

Natasha turned up as she stopped and smiled.

'Well, I win the pool,' Natasha thought as she took a half of a step forward, feeling the heat that burst through her body. Her nipples stiffened against her skin tight suit and her pussy was getting extremely damp and very moist. She slid off the suit and revealed her nice breasts and wet pussy.

Maria was against the wall, eyes glazed over, drool practically spilling from her lips as Harry's cock emptied and filled her with a few rapid fire thrusts that stretched out her body. She closed against his rod and arched her back up, moaning as he sank himself deep into her as much and as far as he could go.

"Oh, give it to me, please," Maria whimpered but she was about to black out.

"Natasha, could you come and relieve your boss?" Harry asked with a grin and the hot redhead walked over.

Maria's eyes widened as Natasha delved deep between her thighs and she began to eat out the woman that was against the wall.

"YES!" Maria moaned as her hips rose up in the air and Harry brushed his fingers across Natasha's hot dripping slit.

Natasha was rather waiting eagerly for her lover to take her from behind and wreck her. Her nipples were erect and Harry captured her breasts in his tight grip. Her tight cunt was about ready to be nailed from behind, it dripped wet and hungered, hungered for one piece of meat.

Harry gave her that piece of meat, slamming into her from behind. Natasha moaned which caused Maria's pussy to explode into a gushing flood.

"Yes, oh, more, please, more, give it to me all," Maria panted as Natasha delved her tongue deep into her employer's cunt.

Harry meanwhile rammed his throbbing hard member deep into the pussy of the redhead. Having her eat out her superior was rather hot and it made his balls throb.

Natasha manipulated her pussy muscles, milking Harry for everything that she felt that he was worth. She was determined, dedicated, to milk every last drop of cum out of his balls and into her body. She waited, hungrily, as she clamped down onto his member.

"Oh, ah," Natasha breathed as he plowed into her, his thick tool manipulating her smoldering center.

His balls were this close to being unleashed and Natasha readied herself as he pumped his thick tool between her legs. His balls sprayed a hot sticky fluid between her legs and her pussy eagerly lapped up every last drop of the cum.

Maria could see the cum dripping from between Natasha's thighs and that caused her to lick her lips. She delved between the hot thighs of the Russian Spy, sucking and licking the center. Her hips rose and Maria lapped up the cum.

Harry cupped her pussy from behind and her legs were parted. The green eyed wizard brushed his length against her hot slit and was about to slip inside her.

Maria's thighs eagerly parted and once again, her lover entered her snug pussy, as she lapped the juices around Natasha's thighs. It allowed her to feel the power and control, as this strong woman was beneath her. Her legs tightened around Maria's face and Natasha lifted her center. The woman's hands wrapped around the back of her head.

"OOOH….YES!" she squealed as she watched Harry's massive length appear and disappear between Maria's thighs. Drool splashed down her lips as she watched his throbbing penis work into her from behind and there was a whimpering drool.

Maria was driven to the brink of sexual gratification and Harry cupped her breasts, which caused her walls to press around him. The woman's walls stroked his cock as he brushed up against her.

"Nice ass," Harry breathed as he slapped it and speared into her, causing her to whimper. She kept munching on Natasha and the redhead grabbed onto her head, clamping her legs around her neck and lifted her pussy up into her mouth.

"Oh, ah," Natasha moaned as Harry rocked into Maria's cunt from behind. She really wished that she was in this position but she supposed that her turn would come soon enough.

His rod delved deep into Maria and her tight cunt clamped around him. The walls stroked him as Harry plowed in and out of her, causing the pleasure to burst through her loins and Harry kept the course, working deep into her.

'Oh cum, please cum,' Maria mentally thought but she figured that she was not going to be heard. She sucked the cum from Natasha's pussy.

The redhead screamed but Harry was about ready to finish in Maria's hot cunt. Her walls clamped around his rod and he slid in and out of her. Her walls snugly fit around him.

He injected another dose of cum into Maria and she felt a mind numbing orgasm. Her walls tightened around him and her walls tightened around him as she milked his delicious cum from his balls, injecting every last drop into her.

Natasha pushed Harry back and rubbed her dripping slit onto his cock and then slammed down onto him, preparing to ride Harry into the night, over and over again.

"I just dozed off, it was the weirdest thing ever when I woke up, I was halfway across the city," Kara said and Harry was not about to discount anything for being weird. "And it was almost like I was seeing things from someone else's point of view ,other than my own."

"Believe me Kara, I know how horrifying that could be," Harry said as he recalled those dreams from Voldemort's Point of View that seemed to be about another entire lifetime ago. Kara and Jean made their way next to Harry, following him.

'The ring might seem to be a crapshoot, but….'

'Say no more, it's the only lead we have now,' Gwen thought as she was sure that she may have seen a ring similar somewhere but her memory was failing her. 'But now Kara is dreaming weirdly and she flew halfway across the town.'

'Yes…..I'm not sure what to make of this quite frankly,' Harry thought to her.

'Well, this is a hunch, a far away hunch mind you, but twins have been known to have that weird sort of telepathy which they were hundreds of miles away from each other,' Gwen thought.

'But….' Kara thought.

'You don't have a twin in the most technical sense of the world but with the Madelyne Pryor incident, we're not ruling out the possibility of cloning,' Lara thought as she offered her two cents. 'Although I'm kind of at a loss of how someone would be able to clone a Kryptonian….because our genetic structure is kind of beyond human science.'

'Which makes things a bit more problematic if that is the case,' Alura chimed in as she tried to figure out what she was going to have to do next. The blonde threw her head back and there was a poignant sigh that escaped her lips.

'Yes, that does make it a problem,' Harry thought as Kara shifted, she was a bit upset.

'Well I figured out where the ring was….it was missing from Joyce Delaney when she was found missing,' Gwen thought to them. 'You don't suppose that the man there….it would be Miles Warren, wouldn't it?"

'Do you recall him wearing a ring?' Harry asked and Gwen racked her brain before she shook her head in the negative.

'Nothing that I can recall no,' Gwen thought and that just made the situation even more problematic as far as she was concerned. 'But he might not have made it that obvious, he must have known that SHIELD was looking at someone in the picture.'

'He's connected to Essex, Osborn, and Luthor, three men who could be masterminding this, well we know that Essex is, we're not quite sure how much the other two knows, if they're even involved,' Harry said as he tried to wrap his head around it.

Maddie had vanished off of the grid once again and Harry was trying to keep all ears out for a sighting. The more he thought about it, the more he was not sure who she was running to.

'Kara, try and recall what you could about the dream,' Harry thought to Kara and Kara closed her eyes, almost as if it would trigger something, anything, a memory.

'I remember a winding staircase, and lab equipment, I remember two men….they were pretty shady, and she said or maybe I said, this is confusing, but someone said that they had to tie up the loose ends,' Kara thought urgently as Harry gripped her arm firmly.

'Sounds like one of the LuthorCorp facilities, the one in Queens,' Tess thought to them. 'Then again, it's pretty much a hunch and one that I can be wrong about.'

'But you could be right,' Harry thought to her and there was a few seconds where the group scrambled their way to the facility, wondering if there was some hint.

"Scientists do not just drop dead just like that," Lex demanded harshly as he could see the equipment of the security cameras were burned out just like that. The young businessman did not like this. Especially given that his father and his uncle had left him with some unfortunate baggage and SHIELD had visited him earlier today asking him all kinds of questions about a girl named Pryor and the Jackal project. He suggested that if they want to find out anything, they should visit Norman at Ravencroft.

"I know that Mr. Luthor sir but we didn't see anyone…."

"These men had a physical not even a week ago, they were in perfect health," Lex said in his harshest tone. "Don't think about it too hard, but it will burn out your brain. However, we really need to get these things done and we need to find out who was the one who attacked them."

"Yes sir…."

"They might be still on the premises," Lex said to them as he sat down behind his desk. He did not want this matter to get back to his father, if he could help it. The problem was that his father had his own eyes and ears inside the midst of LuthorCorp.

He held the latest issue of the Daily Bugle on the desk and he saw another story triumphing something that Arcane did. He crumpled the paper in his hand.

"Burning the midnight oils."

He turned around and saw a figure in the shadows.

"How did you get in my office?" Luthor demanded and the girl in the shadows offered a slight laugh.

"If I told you, I'd have to kill you but given the circumstances, I might have to kill you anyway," the girl in the shadows said and the woman reached forward and grabbed him around the throat.

Lex tried to reach for the bottom and tried to get to the security system but he was hoisted up off of his feet. He could see her cold blue-green eyes in the shadows.

"What do you want?"

"Well, many things as it turned out," the girl whispered. "Depending on how much you cooperate with me, I'll see if I can go without your head on a platter or not. But it depends really if you cooperate with me or not."

"What….WHAT?" Lex demanded as he felt the blood trickled down his mouth and there was a second where he gagged. There was a moment where he was pinned up against the wall, her foot against the side of his waist.

"Miles Warren, he's working for you…."

"Not for me directly, I swear," Lex managed as he felt the high heel brush against his stomach and he felt the air being choked directly out of him.

"You know about Project Jackal, don't you?" she demanded as she released the grip, reminding herself that he was a human and therefore fragile and might break easily.

"That project hasn't been around in almost eight years, it was discontinued, as far as I know," Lex said as there was a few seconds where she glared at him. "I wouldn't know, it was my father….it was him….and Norman Osborn, he'd know, go talk to him, if you think you can, everyone else wants to know about this."

There was a thumping on the door.

"Lex….Lex, are you in there?"

Lex was about ready to call for help but then the girl, she was gone. Blood trickled from his mouth and the door opened, with Tess entering the office.

"I thought I heard voices," Tess said and Lex leaned down onto his desk.

"Merely a false alarm," Lex said in his coolest and most crisp voice.

Tess raised an eyebrow and she watched her half-brother. She knew that his false alarm cry was not something that she was going to buy any time soon. The nail marks in the side of his neck, that was proof that there was something happening.

"A false alarm?" Tess asked Lex and Lex nodded crisply. "I see…."

"Yes, you should see," Lex said to her as he knew that she would not question the situation. "You should go home, there's no reason for anyone to be here, until the investigation concludes. Given your bloodline, people might think that you were involved somewhere. It's a game between those two, you know it and I know it as well."

Tess took half of a step back and nodded.

"Good night then," Tess said as she turned around and walked off. She knew that Harry would have picked up about this already. Lex and Lionel had no idea who her loyalties truly lied to, but they were too preoccupied with their games against themselves that she had become a bit of a blindspot. Not to mention the fact that Lionel was also preoccupied with Norman and vice versa.

Tess was not going to complain and she was going to take fully advantage of that fact.

'I'm outside the window right now, there should be no way that she could have gotten out and got away this quickly but she is,' Harry thought and Emma decided to add her two cents.

'There seems to be a recurring them over the past couple of days, Miss Pryor has been sighted once again, it was outside of Midtown High of all places,' Emma thought to her.

'Why would she show up there of all places, she never went to school there?' Chloe questioned.

'Well that's just another mystery added onto the pile that we're dealing with today,' Emma thought to her and there was a moment where she wondered. 'So what do you think.'

'I don't know, but we got to find both of them,' Harry thought as he decided that he was going to head to Ravencroft. If his hunch was correct, that's what her next stop was.

Norman Osborn crossed his shoulders and leaned back against the wall of his cell. He had been watching and waiting for this moment. A lot of strange rumors had reached him over the past few weeks and sure enough, two of the guards had been dropped down onto the ground.

Their skulls were cracked together and he slowly lifted his head up to look at the blonde who had showed up. She had short cropped hair that extended down to her shoulders. There was a glowing set of blue-green eyes as she crossed her arms underneath her breasts. She was wearing a skin tight white bodysuit that clung to every bit of her curves and a pair of white boots that extended to her knees.

"Yes….may I help you?" Osborn asked in a crisp voice and there was a second where the blonde analyzed the door.

"You know why I'm here," the blonde said as she stared him down. There was a second where she glared at him and the heated gaze that locked onto his eyes was rather chilling. The blonde kept her eyes onto him.

"Could you bother giving me a hint?" Osborn asked, he was curious. "I suppose that there is someone who gave you the impression that I knew about something."

"You're not going to play games with me," she said as she managed to pry the doors opened and grabbed Osborn around the throat. "Where is the Jackal?"

"The Jackal….an old project that got shelved nine years ago because it was a failure?" Osborn asked her and the girl clamped her hand around her throat and threw Osborn back against the wall. She stepped inside with him.

"You know who is behind this, we both know who is behind this, Warren had help and there is now ay he could have cloned us without any help, so what did you do?" she demanded, rage flowing through her eyes. She saw red.

"I don't know what you could be talking about, are you sure you have not snapped?" he asked in a calm voice. "I really don't know…."

"You cannot fool me," she said as she tightened her grip around the man's throat and gagged him against the side of the wall.

"Well someone has messed with your mind, was it Essex or perhaps Lionel or perhaps Warren?" Norman asked as she released her grip. "I know that you might not trust what I say but I'll tell you that I'm not your enemy."

"That remains to be seen," she said in her most dangerous voice.

"Warren has a lab outside the city, you might try and find answers there but you might not like what you find, especially if he has tried to restore the Jackal project," Norman said as she relaxed her grip ever so slightly.

"If I find out you're lying, I'll rip your head off," the blonde whispered dangerously.

"I have no reason to lie to you, I have no reason to help Miles Warren or Essex or Lionel, especially when my life is on the line," Norman argued as she looked at him. "I'm not playing mind games with you, you must believe that."

"We'll see," she whispered harshly and she turned around on her heel and started to edge off into the distance. The blonde's eyes flared with rage and also the most dangerous look that she could muster.

Norman was in the cell but suddenly Arcane stood there right where the blonde was.

"So….I'm guessing you're looking for the mystery blonde," Norman told him and Arcane gave him a piercing glare of death. "She's going down the hallway but hurry…"

'Jean, Kitty, Kara, Rogue, Betsy, interception,' Harry thought as he did not turn his back on Osborn who kept his blaring gaze at him. The man kept his eyes locked onto Harry.

Kara nodded, she was not going to rest until she had answers. This person caused her to go halfway across the wall.

'This way,' Jean piped in as she locked onto a few heated thoughts and she edged her way down the hallway.

Kara flew in front of the blonde and she stood there. Her eyes widened as she stared down her younger double there. Her lips curled in a frustrated glare.

"You, what are you doing there?" she demanded but Kara looked at her and folded her arms. She tried to get away but Kara blocked her with both of her arms, holding a tight grip on her waist.

"Not letting you out here until you give us some answers," Kara said hotly as she grabbed her around the waist but the older girl nailed her hard against the side of the head and whipped her by the hair into the wall.

"You should know better," the girl said and there was a telekinetic shield that appeared around her.

"And you should know that we came prepared," Kitty said as she pulled out a chunk of Kryptonite from her bag and the girl staggered back but grinned.

"PSYCHE!" she yelled as she punched Kitty's hand, shattering the Kryptonite with one huge punch and it cracked really hard.

'I can see it in her eyes, she's not mentally stable,' Betsy thought and Kitty's scowl became extremely prominent as Rogue's punch was blocked and the girl flipped into the air and planted her face first into the ground.

'You fucking think!' she howled as she nursed her bruised fingers, she was not surprised if she had a broken hand.

Kara once again directed the other blonde's attempt but she was kicked right in the face.

Harry grabbed the blonde by the leg and with one hurl had caused her to fling onto the ground. There was a huge thud as she flew back.

"Who are you?" Harry demanded and she offered him a smile as she checked him out, oh yes, he would be fun.

"Call me, Galatea," she said as she moved to face the Team who surrounded her. "You're not going to stop me."