Josh's Reality: Lab: Better Lead than Dead

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Though temporarily out of the Phantom Zone and given just a wee bit of a reprieve, Mon-El was still dying, still suffering from lead poisoning in his veins.  Even if he could be cured of what was killing him now, the odds of encountering lead again were tremendous.  It would take a miracle to truly save his life.

His vision was hazy, pain making it hard to focus, but he could make out a high tech laboratory, one that would have been the envy of many a scientist.

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Josh lay him down on a table and started hooking him up to a dialysis machine, his mind whirring as he recalled all that he'd seen of this guy in his uncle David's comic books (before the older man had refused to let him read anymore). "This should clear more of the lead out of your blood. It'll give me enough time to figure out the right composition for the cure."

Then he frowned and looked toward the door. "I need Kryptonite."

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He was still weak, but he managed a rough smile. He wasn't sure if Josh could hear him, but in as loud a voice as he could manage--barely above a whisper, really--"thank-you..."

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"Don't thank me yet," said Josh softly. "I'll be right back."

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There's almost a laugh from him. "Where'm... I gonna go?"

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"Just wanted to reassure you. You've been alone except for jerks for a long time." He gave him a half smile, then vanished in a puff of wind.

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"'preciate... it"

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A couple moments passed, and then the door opened and light footsteps entered, followed by a gasp.

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Mon-El was a little too out of it to notice.

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And then Josh was back with a small chunk of glowing green rock in his hand. He paused when he saw his wife, but then stepped around her with a smile and set to work.

Jenny watched him, her pale green eyes curious and concerned under her strawberry blond curls, then turned to oversee the monitors on the dialysis machine.

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Little by little, the lead was leaving Lar's system.

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It was a very good thing that Josh didn't have any paper in his lab, because at the moment it seemed as though a whirlwind were loose in the room. Only the orderly nature of the opening and closing doors and moving of objects hinted that there was a person at the heart of the storm.

Jenny, hair tossed by the wind, reached over and gently patted Lar's arm. "Would you like a drink?"

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Something to... Great Daxam!

He was out of the Phantom Zone He could eat and drink now...

"Yes," he says. "Ah... anything's fine."

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"Just water for now," she said apologetically, then turned to get it, only to squeak with surprise as her husband stopped in front of her and handed her a glass before blurring away again.

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Mon-El took a sip of the water, shakily. "Great Galaxies... I'd almost forgotten..."

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She stroked his hair back gently with one small hand, then offered him some more, wondering but not asking what was wrong.

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He managed another smile, then took another sip. "Thank... thank-you."

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"You're welcome," she said softly, then set the glass aside as the machine beeped and went over to look at the screen.

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Mon-El leaned back again, trusting in the machines and in Josh.

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"Alright, let's try this." The boy in question blurred to a stop with an old fashioned needle syringe in one large hand.

Jenny looked at it, then up at him. "Is he Kryptonian?"

"No, Daximite."

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"I'm ready..."

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"Just... just a minute. Jenny?" Josh frowned in sudden nervousness.

She looked up and understood, stepping away from Lar's bed to take Josh's free hand. The two of them bowed their heads for a moment while Jenny murmured softly in an alien tongue that sounded like an ancestor of German and Dutch.

"Okay," said Josh softly when she finished. "Still ready, Lar?"

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Not a language he recognized, at any rate.

"I'm ready."

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Josh nodded and gently administered the injection, then rubbed the spot and looked at the monitors. "You might need more, but the dialysis has already taken care of most of the lead. Now we just need to get your body to heal and protect you from getting poisoned again."

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Lar nodded and raised himself up a bit. "I do feel better," he said, and was surprised to find strength in his voice and no pain in his body.

"The light from a yellow sun should help with the healing. I'll have my powers under it."

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Josh glanced at the screen for a split second, then nodded and flipped a switch on one of the things on Lar's belt, switching the radiation generator from red sunlight to yellow.

Then he gently took the dialysis needles from Lar's veins and put bandaids over the spots.