Chapter 130 - Lena's Lab Sexy Time

Over the last few days, Sam, Alex, Lena, Kara, J'onn and Winn have all been reading through the thousands of pages of documents about Leviathan. Of course, none of them have been able to read everything constantly, because they still have their jobs, but they have all been making steady progress of all the information. From what they have read thus far, the group has realised that despite what Lex suggested in his email to Lena, the documents were not entirely created by him. Some of the wording in a few of the documents sounds very different to the other documents, which signalled to them all that it was written by someone else. Lena theorises that perhaps it was Lionel, who possibly began the documentation on Leviathan, and Lex just inherited. But the friends then soon found that there seems to be multiple different types of grammar, suggesting multiple people have wrote the documents. There is even grammar and language that hasn't been used in many years, long before computers were invented. Therefore, Lena ultimately came to the conclusion that these documents on Leviathan must have been written by multiple people over hundreds of years, and Lex, or perhaps Lionel, simply transcribed them onto a computer, and then added their own findings. This does make sense after all, as from what they already knew before they read these documents, Leviathan has been around for hundreds of years.

So far, from the documents themselves, the superfriends have learnt many things about Leviathan, and the type of organisation that they are. They have learnt that Leviathan is led by a woman named Talia Al-Ghul, who took over the organisations around 300 years ago, after she killed her own father. Of course, seeing as the leader of Leviathan has been around so long, it means that most of Leviathan is made up of various species of aliens. However, several key members of Leviathan are human too. It seems that Leviathan either finds people's weakness, whether it is family, greed, power, or money, and exploits that to use people for their bidding. In some situations, the relationship is mutually beneficial, but in other situations, Leviathan is forcing a person to do what they say.

Leviathan as a group, has been around for thousands of years, maybe since humanity first evolved from apes, or even before. The history from the documents suggests that it was ancient members of Leviathan who organised the assassination of Julius Caesar, and then helped build the Roman Empire into an even greater force than it was. Leviathan were the ones that gave Emperor Qin Shi Huang of China the designs to the great wall. Leviathan provided an alchemist in China with a recipe for an 'elixir of life', but instead was actually the ingredients to gunpowder. Leviathan were the ones who influenced religious figures to go on their various religious crusades. Leviathan helped Genghis Khan create his vast empire. Leviathan were the ones who both created the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and then destroyed it when the time was right, making sure humanity would never find it in the aftermath. Leviathan were the ones who released the black death on humanity, when they deemed that the population needed to get under control, resulting in one third of people in Europe dying. After that, Leviathan continued to influence humanity, both through helping create certain technologies, by their agents whispering in the right ears, and also by guiding certain artists to create pieces which pleased them. Leviathan then continued on, influencing humanity in both their wars and technology, but also playing a hand in certain 'natural' disasters, such as the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, and also the eruption of Mount Tambora, which lead to the 'year without a summer'. Leviathan was present and played a hand in all of it.

"They....... they've been here forever...." Lena says, during one of her reading sessions at her penthouse, along with Kara, Alex, Sam and Winn, with J'onn being at the DEO. "They..... they've been influencing humanity from the very beginning..... putting our history in the directions of their choosing......"

"It looks that way." Sam nods, in a glum voice.

"How..... how do we even stop an organisations like this..... and more importantly.... Should we?" Lena says, completely shaken from having read just as to how much Levithan has influenced everything.

"What do you mean 'should we', Lena?" Alex asks, confused.

"Yeah.... I thought.... you wanted to take them down...." Kara adds, not wanting to bring up the topic of Lena wanting to take them down because they killed her mother.

"I do but..... if we stop them..... and take them down somehow..... there will be a void..... that will likely be filled by other groups and people..... Maybe....... it's better to stick with the evil we know.... rather than create an unknown...." Lena suggests.

Kara looks at Lena, with such a soft look on her face.

"Lena, I don't know if you are right or not. But what I do know, is what Leviathan has been doing, is not right. They have caused billions of people throughout history to die, just because they deem that is the way it should be. They don't seem to do it for power, influence, or money. They look to do it because they have decided they get to control humanities, and now everyone on Earth's, fate. The people of this planet should be free from forces in the shadow influencing things. Yeah, maybe if we take Leviathan down, then someone will take their place, but perhaps not. Maybe, just maybe, if we take down Leviathan, then the people of this planet will be free, for perhaps the first time ever." Kara says.

Lena sighs, while rubbing her face in frustration, really not liking this whole situation.

"Maybe.... you're right..... But that still doesn't get us any closer to how we are going to take them down. They seem to be so massive that an all-out war would be needed to pick them apart." Lena says.

"Hmmm.... I'm not sure." Alex hums, as she reads some of her own files.

"What do you mean?" Winn asks Alex.

"Well, from what I've read here, while Leviathan seems to have a lot of people and aliens as part of it, there are key influential figures in Levithan that sort of organise it all. Of course, we don't have all the names here. But if it's true that a large amount are only working for Leviathan through blackmail or whatever, if those top figures were to all be taken down, then Leviathan might fall with it." Alex suggests.

"Yeah." Sam says, nodding her head, "And from what I've seen here, it looks like over the last 50 or so years, Leviathan has mostly been working very much more so in the shadows, rather than being directly involved like they have been previously. If that is the case, then it's likely that Leviathan wouldn't need such an expansive operation as part of their spheres of influence."

"That's all well and good..... and maybe some of that's true. But where do we even begin to start?" Lena asks.

There is then a silence in the room, as all the adults look at one another, and then back down at their documents.

"Maybe with Talia Al-Ghul herself?" Winn suggests.

All the women in the room now look at Winn.

"Perhaps if we can track her movements, or at least do a more detailed look into her history, we would be able to find out further information on Leviathan today, and what she is up to. I mean..... we don't even have a picture of her at the moment." Winn says.

"I'm pretty sure it must have been this Talia woman who was there leading Leviathan when they recaptured me from the shadow woman lady, and took me back to Lex." Kara says.

"Do you think you could describe how she looks well enough for an artist's impression?" Alex asks her sister.

"Yeah, but I'm not sure I'd trust an artist with such key information. If Leviathan has people everywhere, then who's to say that some artist impressionist isn't in their pocket too?" Kara says.