Hello all, just thought I'd drop in and get something straight first. I've seen the television series a billion times and read as much as I can on the internet, but I have not read any of the actual Legion comics. Therefore, the following story is purely my interpretation of what happened based off of the show and my basic knowledge. I apologize for any mistakes in advance, so don't bite my head off.

Wait…. Something else… Oh yeah. I don't own the Legion of Superheroes or anything. Duh. Continue with your reading.

Brainiac Five's life was beginning to feel like a living hell. He was tired. Tired of the same basic routine. Tired of the ever-watchful guards and "caretakers". Tired of being locked up in his own lab. Tired of the monotone world his life was becoming.

The small blonde boy was sitting in front of his latest project which was spread out before him in pieces on a metal table. Any regular human would have mistaken him for an inept child no older than the age of nine if it was not for his green skin and strange robotic-like eyes. But Brainiac Five knew he was no ordinary child. He was the descendent of the great Brainiac, and as such the inhabitants of Colu treated him like a piece of expensive hardware; fragile and important, but just an object to use. To be frank, the constant watch of his caretakers was becoming annoying and frustrating. He was only allowed to work on projects that the Coluans wanted him to; when on the side he had millions of ideas of his own he wanted to bring forth into his lab. He had been debating lately if he should leave Colu altogether. A while back, Brainiac Five would have never thought of leaving his home planet. It was the only place he had ever lived. There were many files of other worlds and events in his memory files, but they were not his own, rather the original Brainiac's and files from his many computer resources. The strange places held his interest more than Colu, especially one in particular. He had always wanted to visit Earth, home of the greatest "Superman" memorial of all time. Leaving Colu, though, would not be a simple goodbye. He was 99.7 sure that they were not going to let him leave. This was going to take some thought. That thought was interrupted by the stone voice of one of the caretakers.

"Brainiac Five. It is time for you to retire your current project for the time being and recollect yourself with the Hive-mind." The caretaker's voice instructed Brainiac Five in an unchanging tone.

Unchanging.

Like everything else.

Brainiac Five let the caretaker's instructions bounce in his head for a second before swiveling his chair around. Standing up out of his chair, he took even steps to the lab door. His footsteps echoed sharply in the metal room as he swept away the small blonde hairs that continued to fall in front of his cold magenta eyes.

It was time to retire his stay on Colu.

Brainiac Five had only taken a few steps into the Central Hive Chamber before he realized he had slightly miscalculated. There were seven more guards then he had expected. No matter. They still were not going to be able to stop him from leaving. The Central Hive Chamber was wide and circular covered in dark iridescent material in the shapes of hexagons that formed a geometrical pattern. The High Ruler was seated high above on a black throne so she could overlook all of the 'lower' Coluans. Other Coluans, mostly the guards, were on raised platforms, but none higher than the High Ruler's. There were three white circles connected by two white lines in the middle of the room before the throne. Brainiac Five stepped into the center circle, staring straight in front of him. He bent down on one knee; head down as of customs, only standing when the High Ruler addressed him.

"Brainiac Five. Commence your systematic upgrade with the Hive-mind." The High Ruler of Colu spoke directly to him, but never lowered her eyes to the spot where he stood.

"I refuse."

This caused her to swiftly direct her gaze at him. Her eyes became slits as she narrowed them into a questioning glare.

"Pardon me?" the High Ruler said. "You must be mistaken. You are going to commence the regular upgrade." Brainiac Five could almost feel the cold hard glare of the High Ruler drilling into his head.

"You are mistaken. I will not be uploading today or even tomorrow because I am leaving." He said all of his words carefully and sternly. "I am leaving Colu and you are going to let me go. The only reason I came here is to tell you that." He raised his gaze to the equal cold stare of the High Ruler. He saw her eyes widen slightly before she narrowed them further still.

"Really, it would be…. unwise for you to leave, Brainiac Five." At that a few of the guards shifted closer to him and seemed to stiffen, as if they were preparing for an attack. "It is unimportant why you wish to leave the Hive-mind. Whatever the reason, do you realize the dangers of not being here for the next alignment or more importantly, the crude ways outside of Colu's order?"

"Order? This 'order' you speak of holds no interest to me any longer. I will depart immediately."

"You know we cannot let you do that." The guards tightened their circle around Brainiac Five, surrounding him with tall powerful Coluans almost three times the size of the small child. Turning his back on the High Ruler, he began his walk towards to exit of the Central Hive Chamber. The guard to his left moved to stop him when the guard next to him mumbled something barely audible.

"Is he holding somethi-"

The guard was cut off by a loud explosion from the base of the tall hexagon supporting the throne. The blast knocked several guards down and the tall tower started to shake and crumble. The High Ruler leapt forward to the ground sporting a new huge crater where the three circles had been. The fallen guards were rising to their feet and the other half were returning to the explosion site. The High Ruler did not need her eyes to know what was missing from the now damaged Chamber. Sharply turning to the closest guard, she asked the question no one wanted to answer.

"Where is the boy?"

Brainiac Five was running faster then he had ever run before. He estimated it would take 35 seconds at best until they located him and brought the entire Coluan army there to stop him. He was certain that they would not kill him if things became desperate, but he always avoided chances that may turn out unfortunate for him. Certainty was the only sure way of survival, but at the moment everything was depending on how he planned out his final moves. Turning through the maze of twisting hallways he concentrated on finding the Southeastern Hanger. From there, he would hack into the controls of the intergalactic starship called The Nebula and escape the clutches of his home world. Things had gone according to plan so far. He had known that they would not let him go, so he had placed the small nanotechnology bomb that he had recently invented on the floor when he had bowed traditionally to the 'almighty' High Ruler. His original plan had been to escape through the ventilation system, therefore giving him more cover, but it would have been a matter of seconds before they would cut off his exists. Detonating his bomb with the small handheld detonator had proven useful in distracting the guards, and he was lucky not to run into any others as he continued his dash to the hanger.

He could barely keep himself from skidding to a stop as he turned the last corner. Suddenly the endless hallways opened up into a huge open-ceiling room filled with Coluan ships. One of the ships stood out from the sleek uniformed purple with its rusty blue-green color. Brainiac Five knew that The Nebula was an older ship, but he was already beginning to doubt that it could fly at all, but it was his best chance of escape. It was well known that Coluans preferred to keep to themselves, so even one outsiders' ship was unusual. He was about to run to the odd ship when something moved out of the corner of his vision. The guards must have already received notification of his escape attempt. Brainiac Five suspected they knew he was going for the ship, and were lying in wait in hopes of stopping him. Counting the guards he could see, it became clear that he would not be able to get to the ship fast enough to evade them. In fact, it looked as if they were preparing to destroy the ship, and therefore smash his chances of leaving. This left only one option. Two really, but Brainiac Five was not considering surrendering as an option.

He reached into his back pocket and pulled out a small circular disk the size of a coin. It was silver in color with a translucent center. Hard to see and substantially light, the device's presence barely known to the person holding it. Brainiac Five almost hated to see his first prototype go to waste, but he would just build another one once he got his hands on the materials. Putting one knee on the ground for the second time that day, he twisted the silver ring around the translucent center and slid the almost weightless disk across the smooth polished floor.

The guards lunged out in attack as they saw Brainiac Five run from his hiding place and flee towards the nearest Coluan ship. All of them fired high quantities of electricity at the running child, not enough to kill, but enough to knock him unconscious instantly. For some strange reason though, their attacks were not having any affect on the boy. Struggling to contain their surprise and confusion, some of the guards diverted to just extending their arms quickly towards the moving target to calm him with the Hive-mind's powerful code content. The arms sped closer and closer…. until they went straight through him. It was scientifically impossible to do what the small boy had just done. The guards ceased their attacks to try to comprehend what exactly was taking place. Then the boy reached a Coluan ship and disappeared. Disappeared was not the best term; it was more like he turned fuzzy and transparent before fizzing out like a broken television. One of the Coluans stepped calmly but cautiously to the spot the boy disappeared and took a close look at the area. Bending over, he picked up a small circular device that was spurting sparks and smoke. Finally realizing their mistake, the guards began to survey the area. The child had proven his genius birthright by fooling them all with another diversion. The fact that the distraction had only lasted a minute meant that there was no possible way he could have slipped past without them noticing. They began to turn their attention to the spot the fake had come from, only to find it empty with traces stating the obvious: the boy had been there. That was when one of the Coluans noticed a soft humming and a rush of hot air. He turned around.

There was a small blue-green ship identified as The Nebula, and it was slowly rising off of the ground. The ship's rusty composure began to groan and a few metal pieces fell off and clattered to the floor. The other guards had their own gazes locked on something more specific. Looking past the Coluan ships, past the rising rusty heap, past the dirty and dusty view-screen, there was a small blonde green-skinned boy barely tall enough to reach the controls. He gave them no notice, not even a spare glance as his fingers swiftly worked across the controls. The old ship rose completely above the hanger's wall, gave one final shudder, and became a blur as it jumped into hyperspace. The sonic boom from the jump knocked most of the guards flat to the ground. Those who were not on the floor were now contemplating their own fates, because this failure was one the High-ruler was unlikely to forget. Ever.

That's it for now. I'll continue it if I get some encouragement or kudos or whatever. Thanks for reading it this far! :D