"Oh, I'm going to make JARVIS take dictation and Tony is getting me a masseuse, as far as I'm concerned," she said with a warm smile over at Jim. Thankfully, all of her teeth seemed to be in place, even if her lip was bloody.

Kara gave them all a wry, tired smile.

"You can all be tough and adorable once you're home. I'm heading out with her now."

And with that, Kara lifted Lois in her arms and a white-red streak exited the room. That left Clark and Jim and Clark turned to his brother with a deep, pained sigh.

"I know what I just said isn't going to sit right with you," he said quietly, "so you do what you deem best."

Jim didn't have his powers, didn't have the same weights hanging over his head. He was human, with everything that came with, including a vulnerability to bullets. Not to mention his laundry list of reasons to want to kill every last one of HYDRA's members. But Clark... couldn't. He knew Diana could, knew Steve could, knew Jim could. But for better or worse, they were all warriors. Soldiers.

He wasn't. And some part of him never would be, no matter how many times he fought.

"I'm going to try and knock out and tie up as many as possible before I get word to embassy in Qurac. For everyone's sake, we need living proof of HYDRA's association with the Bialyan government. We need to hold them accountable for this, so that everything that happened to Lois isn't in vain."

She'd kept his secret, through torture and who knew what else. He'd do this the hard way for her as much as for himself.