Cat, The #3

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Synopsis

"From Far Beneath the Mirror of the Moon" Spotlighted by the beacons from a large cabin cruiser, the Cat piloted a small speedboat past a warning buoy.  She attempted to evade their pursuit by speeding through a marina.  Her maneuver failed, and instead she ran into some rocks.  The crew of the cruiser cast a net to pull her from Lake Michigan.  With the skyline of Chicago in the distance, the crew unwrapped her on their deck. In a flashback to the previous issue, the Cat chose to maintain her secret identity a while longer.  Rather than confront the police surrounding the Owl's building, she went back to the closet where she'd been confined, changed clothes, and relocked the door.  When the police found her, she explained that Dr. Joanne Tumolo had been kidnapped from the hospital and she'd followed.  When she reached the street, reporters surrounded her.  One of the police volunteered to drive her back to the hospital to rejoin the doctor.  The police were left with another unsolved crime.  After a few weeks, the hospital released Dr. Tumolo and Greer took her to a house in the country to convalesce.  Ben Richards, Dr. Tumolo's lawyer, came to visit and mentioned he'd been working on his boat.  Greer asked for a ride.  Richards went one better, taking her scuba diving.  While underwater, she heard a sonar-like signal coming from the lake bottom.  Later, at dinner, Richards complimented Greer on how fast she learned to dive.  Feeling there was something insidious going on in the lake, she picked Richards' pocket to "borrow" the keys to the boat.  That night she went back out onto the lake. Back in the present, one crewman removed her cat-eared cowl.  Both men puzzled over the purpose of such strange garb.  They decided to take her to "the dome."  They took the cruiser to a cave in a mass of rocks, then descended in a pressurized elevator to a glowing hemisphere on the lake bottom.  Inside, she was amazed to see uniformed men and women carrying out various duties.  Greer was escorted to a chamber, where Intelligence Officer Belag interrogated her.  Rather than answer, she demanded to know why they had brought her there?  Before either could answer the mutual questions, an alarm sounded.  Belag left and charged a crewman to guard their guest.  Greer knocked him out before the door could close.  Pulling her Cat cowl back on, she slipped out.  She ducked into another compartment as someone came down the corridor.  Inside, she found the Service Dress White uniforms for ensigns, lieutenants, and commanders in the U.S. Navy.  She assumed she'd found out a secret government project. From a balcony, the Cat saw Belag and his companions held at gunpoint by pirate-garbed marauders led by Commander Kraken.  He had come up the St. Lawrence Seaway in search of a haven, and found the dome quite suitable.  He threatened any who resisted his takeover with drowning.  Having heard enough, the Cat dove into the midst of them.  Between knocking out pirates and cutting Belag's crew free from their bindings with her claws, the Cat reversed the situation.  Kraken fled, leaving his defeated crew behind. The Cat revealed her story to Belag.  They agreed to keep each other's secrets, then he escorted her back to the surface.  She took Richard's speedboat back to the lake shore and changed clothes.  As she was doing so, the subaquatic laboratory noisily rose from the water and disappeared into the sky.  Greer realized Belag and his crew were aliens, and began not to feel so enthused about her recent actions.